Heads Collection (page 16)

Saint Saens / Samson / Lieb6
Act 3 scene 3 : Samsons hair has re-grown, giving him the strength to bring down the temple of Dagon on the heads of his Philistine captors

Dairy Cows / Feeding Time
A row of cows heads poke out of their narrow units around feeding time

Peruvian Postman
Peruvian postmen keep their heads - and the mail which they carry on them - as they negotiate the rapids which are a hazard of the country

On a Rhine Steamer
With their hats secured to their heads by scarves, sightseers on a Rhine steamer admire the castles and other sights on either bank

Racial / Arrow Heads 1853
Native arrow heads made from flint

Jehu & Heads of State
A conference between Jehu and other heads of state

Worship, C18 Haiti
Religious ceremony of the inhabitants of Hispaniola, West Indies (today Haiti and Dominican Republic) - the god has heads of different animals, and a tail

Herakles and the Hydra
One of his Twelve Labours is to slay the Hydra of Lerna, a denizen of the swamps, each of whose nine heads, if severed, is replaced by two more : but he manages it

Folklore / Hydra
Herakles must slay the Hydra of Nemea, whose nine heads are self- renewing : his nephew Iolaus has the answer - cauterise the necks as soon as severed

Lunar Influences
The Influence of the Moon on the Heads of Women a 17th century caricature which manages to be both politically incorrect and scientifically doubtful

Additional Postmen
Huge increase in the number of postmen ! A comment on the pigeon post which employs carrier pigeons to fly messages out of Paris over the heads of besieging Prussians

Madeira Peasants
Madeira peasants carring food and wood on their heads and shoulders

Dragon (Munster)
Dragons - one with two heads, the other with three - reported by travellers in Asia

Indian Monsters
Monstrous creatures reported by travellers in India, from beyond the Ganges River - some with dogs heads, some with one eye, some with heads below their shoulders &c

Herakles & Hydra 1920
Herakles slays the Hydra of Lerna whose heads - originally numbering only nine - doubled when severed : the difficulty was resolved by his nephew

Balaclava / Charlton
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord George Paget heads the 4th Light Dragoons

ELF SHOT
ELF-SHOT These flint arrow-heads were supposed to be of fairy origin, and a valuable protection against the Evil Eye

Buddhist Anaesthesia
BUDDHIST NOVICE PRIESTS at Setchuan, China, have burning incense placed on their shaven heads; it leaves deep scars but their training enables them to disregard the pain

Headless Ghosts
HEADLESS GHOSTS The German scholar Camerarius reports a vision of a procession of ghosts carrying their own heads

Communications / Courier
An Ethiopian courier carries a message from the Negus : peasants along the route bow their heads in respect

Miracle / Jesus
JASMIN, barber-poet of Agen, in Provence, is visited by Jesus who cuts off the heads of his customers then replaces them to show his power, thereby converting Jasmin

Apocalypse, The Great Beast
Scene from the Apocalypse -- The Great Beast

Headmasters house, Rugby School
Headmasters house at Rugby School

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