Ancient international decapitations week?

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Ancient international decapitations week?

On the macabre side, this week seems to be one where old decapitated skeletons, or the separated skulls therefrom are found throughout the world!

1. In Britain, in the garden of the not-unkown David Attenborough, the skull of the 1879 murder victim Julia Thomas has been found:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323396/Skull-Sir-David-Attenboroughs-garden-solves-1879-Barnes-Mystery.html[/URL]

2. At Åsnes, Norway, a headless skeleton was found, and full alarm was raised.
The Forensic Institute has established it is the remains of convicted&decapitated child murderess Anna Østmo, who strangled her bastard child in 1782.
(Her skull is still missing)
[url]http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10034333[/url]

Are similar occurences afoot (askull??) in the US this week? :smile:
 
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I'll have to take your word on that second article. Was the body found at the site of the death? How could they identify a body only from back then?
 


As for the identification:
1. The skeleton was found near the old execution site.
2. Only three persons were executed at that place in this manner in the time range determined by the Forensic Institute, Østmo included.
3. Of those three, only she fits the skeleton found, that of a slender, young woman (the other two were male)
4. We know from sources that her last plea was to be buried in hallowed ground, and also that this plea was ignored.

So, the identification seems pretty solid.
 


lisab said:
Seems to happen in Mexico these days, with very disturbing regularity :frown:.

nothing like seeing the decapitated head of your friends and family to discourage you from repeating offensive mistakes...
 


lisab said:
Actually my comment was in reference to the vicious drug war going on in Mexico now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War

I'm not so sure.
I think I've proven that the deep structure of current reality, i.e, its Zeitgeist, is in a decapitation mood. It then utilizes various contemporary issues to make itself known.

Sad, frightening, but probably true..:frown: