Jihadi John cuts off the head of an American or Japanese journalist, and the uploaded, socially networked video becomes a weapon of mass psychic torture, spreading virally.
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His movements are apelike. The Moor seduces the Ballerina and later savagely cuts off the head of the puppet Petrushka. When Petrushka is performed today, the part of the Moor is still done in full blackface, or occasionally blueface. The blackface has not been publicly criticized in the ballet community.
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Other versions have him turn his back to the princess while undressing. Whatever version however, while undressing, the princess awakens from his spell and cuts off the head of the now helpless Halewijn with his own sword. The princess takes the head with her and triumphantly returns home. On her way back she meets Halewijn's mother who asks her about her son.
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One day, Patroclus and Æneas are outside picking potatoes when the Pumpkin Giant comes towards them trying to eat Æneas. Patroclus throws a large potato into the mouth of the Giant, killing him. The family then cuts off the head of the Giant and Æneas uses it as a toy for some time. After the death of the Pumpkin Giant, pumpkin heads begin to sprout in fields all over the country, and everyone fears that they will soon have hundreds of Pumpkin Giants roaming about.
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Devat Bodar cuts off the head of his son, to prove that to King that he was not his son but was RaNavghan. King was still not satisfied. So, he asked to bring Devat Bodar's wife Sonal and asked her to remove eyes from the head of dead Uga, keep it on ground, and walk on that eyes, without dropping even one drop of tear from her own eyes. As, it was such a cruel and hard test for a mother, but Sonbai did that to prove that he was not her son.
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It cuts off the head of its victim, replaces that victim's spine with its own, and then shapeshifts to look like the former person. At some point, it was kept in a chest which was taken to the Arctic with the intent of blowing it up, but it was too cold to light the fuse and the passengers aboard froze to death. It is found by Connor, Nyarlathotep's handyman, and is brought back to Arkham. Gnruk of Vol'Kunast: another creature summoned by Nyarlathotep to aid in the godwar.
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Fleeing the Spanish they are followed by a frigate in the employ of the duc d'Arcachon, an investor in their plan and a man who wishes to kill Jack for ruining a party in The King of the Vagabonds. Believing the Duke plans to cheat the Cabal in the investment, they sail to Egypt and transport the gold over land to Cairo. In Cairo the Cabal negotiates with d'Arcachon's men for a meeting with the duc himself; as an inducement for this meeting they offer to hand over Jack. Jack cuts off the head of the duc to avenge Eliza, whom the duc had enslaved over a decade earlier.
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A practical case of pesik reisha is the dragging of a heavy chair over soft earth which will definitely result in furrows which constitute the melacha (action) of plowing. As a result, it is forbidden according to Halacha for a Jew to drag a chair over soft earth on Shabbos, which will necessarily result in the creation of furrows (one of the 39 melachot) The phrase is short for p'sik reisha ve'lo yamut? - Will you cut off its head and it will not die? This phrase refers to the most classic case of "p'sik reisha", where if a person cuts off the head of a chicken he cannot expect that it won't die.
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