Then the vase is broken and one has a
man in the shape of a pot."
The Kyrgyz writer, Chingiz Aitmatov (or Aytmatov) (1928 - ) recounts
in "The Day Lasts More than One Hundred Years" (1980) the legend of
the Ana-Beiit cemetery and the zombies known as "mankurts".
According to tradition, the nomad Zhuan'zhuan, shaved the heads of the
younger and more fit prisoners of war and wrapped their skulls in raw
camel hide. The prisoners were then left to shrivel in the desert's
scorching sun, without food or water. As the caps shrank around their
heads, they perished in terrible agony. The survivors completely lost
their memory. Their subsequent submissiveness and loyalty made them
ten times more valuable than a regular slave and three times as
precious as a free man (in terms of pecuniary damages when
accidentally killed).
http://www.stormy.org/edcompr.htm
http://www.freeman.org/m_online/may99/shusteff1.htm
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon did invade Britain. During the Irish rebellion of 1798, in
September, a sizable French fleet got close to the shore of Ireland
but was dispersed by a storm.
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