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France’s Death Helmet – Terrifying Method of Capital Punishment
In 1898, a strange contraption called a death helmet was said to soon take the place of the guillotine. However, the death helmet was far…
Four Men Guillotined in Eight Minutes
There is no denying that the guillotine made fast work of executions and that Deibler and his assistants made the executions run smoothly, with little…
Guillotine Parties and Celebrations
Parties and celebrations often began before the execution of a criminal in France, but sometimes, especially when the criminal was a murderer, the parties went…
Anatole Deibler Tells Us If It Hurts To Be Beheaded
Anatole Deibler, France’s former high executioner who oversaw the use of the guillotine on hundreds of condemned criminals, was asked whether or not it hurt…
Decapitated Human Head Attached to Living Dog
After someone made his appointment with the National Razor (guillotine), he was whisked away from the scene and taken to a burial ground where family…
Origin of the Easter Egg
Books have been written on the origin of Easter and all of its symbolism. The article below was originally published in 1899, and it is…
Pennsylvania Woman Crushed to Jelly By Train
It is not so much that a woman was crushed by a train in 1871, but the headline of the article that detailed the gruesome…
Decapitated Heads With Moving Eyes
I have written about decapitated heads that bite, but I have not touched on the eyes of decapitated heads moving. There is a lot of…
Weird Safety Pin Holder Craft Project From 1894
I find doll heads to be rather disturbing, so why were craft projects, such as this safety pin holder, so popular in the past? The…
6 Terrifying Things Witnessed at the Guillotine
Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine waged a verbal war against the barbaric use of axes and swords to execute criminals, but he had very little else…
