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Dullahan is a legendary creature in Irish folklore, depicted as a headless horseman or coachman who carries his own head. He appears near a graveyard or a charnel vault where a wicked aristocrat is buried, and foreshadows imminent death or misfortune.
The dullahan is a headless, demonic fairy from Irish folklore, often riding a horse and carrying his head under his arm. He is one of the many examples of headless horsemen in European myths and legends, such as the German Der Kopflose Reiter, the Welsh Fenyw heb un pen, and the American El Muerto.
Rumours of headless riders only really took off after the release of the film Stone (1974) in Australia (released in Japan in 1981). The film contains a scene in which a rider's head is chopped off with piano wire set into the road, and this is said to have spread in connection with rumours of motorbike accidents in various parts of the country.
Headless, a foe in Ultima; Headless, NPCs in The Matrix Online; Headless, a 2015 horror film by Arthur Cullipher; Headless (band), an Italian hard rock band; Mike the Headless Chicken (non-fiction), a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off "Headless", a song by Joe Satriani from his album Flying in a Blue Dream
Mike was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head was cut off in 1945. He became a famous sideshow attraction and inspired a punk band and a Colorado festival.
A headless engine or fixed head engine is an engine where the end of the cylinder is cast as one piece with the cylinder and crankcase. The most well known headless engines are the Fairbanks-Morse Z and the Witte Headless hit and miss engine. See also. Monobloc engine; An advertisement for a headless hit and miss engine. References
A 1995 American black comedy and horror film based on a New York Post headline about a stick-up in a strip club. The film follows the hostages and the gunman as they play a twisted game of "Nazi Truth" and face a gruesome fate.
Learn about the standard codes for the names of countries and their subdivisions, maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Find the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric codes, the ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains for each of the 249 countries.