THE SCENE: Is this a scene of a joyous miracle, or it just a moment of freaky beyond-the-grave ownage?
THE TEXT: A cleric was being shot by arrows by Saracens to make him deny his faith. One who had already abjured was present, and kept taunting him with his folly in believing, and at every stroke kept saying, “How do you like that?” To which the other made no answer. At last seeing him still constant, he smote off his head with a single blow, and the words, “How do you like that?” The severed head, speaking with its own lips, at once replied, “I like it very well.”
– De Nugis Curialium, Walter Map, 12th Century AD
