bemaurian

Updated: June 21, 2025

In 1436, when a Bavarian woman, Agnes Bemaurian, wife of Duke Albert the Pious, was dropped off the bridge at Prague, she persisted in rising to the surface and trying to escape; so the executioner gave himself the trouble to put a long pole into her hair and hold her under.

Ambrose Bierce - The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays: 1909