Headlessness


Headlessness

See also Decapitation.Acephalifabled Libyan nation of men without heads. [Rom. Hist.: Leach, 6]Alban, St.carries his head in his hands. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Dictionary, 18]Denis of Paris, St.French patron; carried severed head to burial. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 104–105]Headless Horsemanspectral figure haunts Ichabod Crane. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]