When the executioner lifted her severed head, it fell away from his hand and he was left holding the auburn wig she had chosen to wear.

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But the hapless pasha was decapitated, his severed head being duly placed in a gourd full of honey and exposed at the Topkapi palace in Istanbul, after he was implicated in a plot to overthrow the sultan.

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Remember that a severed zombie head can still bite.

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