severed head
Guillotine's grim product
A severed head is a head that has been cut off from a body.
The phrase appears in discussions of violence, execution, warfare, and horror: The rebels displayed severed heads on pikes.
In mythology and art, severed heads carry symbolic weight—trophies of conquest, objects of prophecy, or gruesome warnings.
- decapitationSevering head from body
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- executionCompleting a planned task
- chopping blockSurface for cutting meat
skull · neck · bloody stump · blade · gore · trophy · Medusa · John the Baptist · horror · macabre · scaffold · axe · executioner · gruesome · bloody · body horror · stump · murder
- Halloweenjack-o-lantern, trick or treating, haunted mansion, pumpkin, trick-or-treat
- haunted attractionshaunted house, jump scare, haunted maze, jump scares, strobe light
- Perseus mythPerseus, Andromeda, Medusa, Pegasus, Gorgon
- KaliShakti, Durga, Parvati, Devi, Shiva
- macabrecorpse, corpses, skull, skulls, skeleton
- Tantric Buddhismdakini, tantra, yogini, consort, deity