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In 2014, a massive prison riot broke out in Cascavel, Brazil. Nearly 1,000 inmates (some of whom are pictured above) rose up to demand better living conditions. They took over several wings of the institution and even set fire to many parts of the prison. Of the four people killed, two were brutally beheaded. Guards were held hostage. Their captors used the severed heads to inflict psychological torture. Similarly, decapitation is an unlikely form of suicide but could occur unintentionally during a hanging attempt. In a 2018 study , researchers examined records from 1.5 million suicidal hangings and found only three resulted in actual beheadings. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 28, 121-123. Longfellow translation, Commentaries from the Dartmouth Dante project.

Human decapitation is extremely rare, and even so, most likely to happen by accident in an industrial, train, or automotive accident. A study in the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology examined 170 years of references to homicidal decapitation and found only 22 instances. The physician might have been correct. Studies involving animals have recorded brain activity following the sudden severing of the head. One study in New Zealand sought to understand whether there was brain activity in decapitated lab rats . By 1956, further research had proved, in the words of governemntal advisers Drs Piedelievre and Fournier, that "death [by decapitation] is not instantaneous [...] every vital element survives [...it is] a savage vivisection, followed by a premature burial." WATCH NOW: BEHEADED BABIES AND WOMEN FOUND IN KFAR AZA." i24News, Oct. 10, 2023. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKc9ESIEMpw. Accessed 11 Oct. 2023. How i24News Turned Pro-Netanyahu to Secure Broadcast License.” Haaretz, Dec. 2, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-12-02/ty-article-magazine/.premium/how-i24news-turned-pro-netanyahu-to-secure-broadcast-license/0000017f-e1dd-d75c-a7ff-fddd07cb0000. Accessed 11 Oct. 2023.

We asked multiple times if any children or infants were beheaded, and, if so, how many. We received the following response: “We cannot confirm any numbers. What happened in Kibbutz 'Kfar Azza' is a massacre in which women, children, toddlers and elderly were brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action," referring to the Islamic State militant group. "We are aware of the heinous acts Hamas is capable of.” In June 2016, a Minnesota man decapitated a friend who was accused of raping his girlfriend. Joseph Thoresen, age 35, was arrested fleeing from a vehicle belonging to 20-year-old David Haiman, whom he murdered. Haiman was reported missing after failing to show for work. Five days later, authorities discovered his torso at 9:30 AM. An hour and a half later, they located his head. In Porto Velho state penitentiary in Rondonia, eight were killed, and the psychiatric ward was set ablaze. 1 Decapitated Hindu Priest Hamas Kills 40 Babies and Children -- Beheading Some of Them -- at Israeli Kibbutz: Report." NYPost, 10 Oct. 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/hamas-kills-40-babies-and-children-beheading-some-of-them-at-israeli-kibbutz-report/.Accessed 11 Oct. 2023.

Kongara says we can assume that what is painful to animals is also painful to humans, although given the fatal nature of decapitation, we’ll never be able to have humans report on their experiences. “But it is possible that the severed human heads remain conscious for some time,” Kongara says. Umar, Baba. “No ‘confirmation’ about Allegations ‘Hamas Beheaded Babies’— Israeli Army.” No “confirmation” about Allegations “Hamas Beheaded Babies”— Israeli Army, https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/no-confirmation-about-allegations-hamas-beheaded-babies-israeli-army-15344898. Accessed 11 Oct. 2023. If true in humans, those few seconds would provide enough time for a strange and terrifying experience: count off four seconds ("one Mississippi…"), and notice how much of your surroundings you can register. It’s a Massacre’: IDF Troops Clear Kfar Azza Kibbutz. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUviWn2EXlA. Accessed 11 Oct. 2023.Below is everything we know about the claim, including its origin story and how mainstream media outlets played a role in its spread. Infants Died. Does It Matter if They Were Beheaded or Not?

In 2011, Dutch scientists hooked an EEG (electroencephalography) machine to the brains of mice fated to decapitation. The results showed continued electrical activity in the severed brains, remaining at frequencies indicating conscious activity for nearly four seconds. Studies in other small mammals suggest even longer periods. a b "The stories of St. Edmund, St. Kenelm, St. Osyth, and St. Sidwell in England, St. Denis in France, St. Melor and St. Winifred in Celtic territory, preserve the pattern and strengthen the link between legend and folklore", Beatrice White observes. ( White 1972, p.123). Ashton, Ben. “Reporter on Verge of Tears as She Describes Babies Being Beheaded by Hamas.” Metro, 10 Oct. 2023, https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/10/hamas-murdered-40-babies-dead-israel-war-19641362/.Accessed 11 Oct. 2023.When Snopes reached out to the IDF to comment on the underlying rumor — namely that Israeli babies were beheaded by Hamas — the military did not confirm that the purported beheadings happened. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesperson Tal Heinrich stated to media that babies and toddlers had been found with their “heads decapitated” in Kfar Aza. In the New Zealand study, researchers first sedated the rats, attached electroencephalograph (EEG) monitoring, and set them up in a rat-sized guillotine. After decapitation, the researchers observed activity for the first 10 to 15 seconds. Kongara says she was motivated to study decapitation in rats after reading other studies involving consciousness of slaughtered farm animals. “These studies made us think about laboratory animals, which are killed in large numbers globally for experimental purpose,” says Kongara. On this list there are decapitations by sword, booby trap, basketball, iron girder, garden tools and something called the noose-o-matic. Will it therefore come as a great surprise to anyone that this next one is decapitation by sideboard? The motif Head in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature [15] reveals how universal is the anomaly of the talking severed head. Aristotle is at pains to discredit the stories of talking heads and to establish the physical impossibility, with the windpipe severed from the lung. "Moreover," he adds, "among the barbarians, where heads are chopped off with great rapidity, nothing of the kind has ever occurred." [16] Aristotle was doubtless familiar with the story of the singing disembodied head of Orpheus and Homer's image of heads severed so rapidly they seemed still to be speaking, [17] and Latin examples could be attested. A link between Latin poets and the Middle Ages in transmitting the trope of the speaking head was noted by Beatrice White, [18] in the Latin poem on the Trojan War, De Bello Troiano by Joseph of Exeter. Hector whirls in the air the severed head of Patroclus, which whispers "Ultor ubi Aeacides", "Where is Achilles [Aeacides], my avenger?"