Note 2 — I
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It is curious in this connection that among the legends of the Saints there is no record of a decapitated person being brought back to life. The angels or departed saints who came to heal the torn breasts of martyred Christian virgins were unable to put heads back on bleeding trunks, even though the tongues in some of those heads were empowered to testify for some time after they would, in the ordinary course of things, have become silent for ever.