Things you shouldn't put on an SCA Scroll part 5
Nothing say, "Thanks for all you do for the SCA" quite like a decapitation. Can you imagine this image on a writ for a Pelican? What gets me is how modern the image appears. This is from Hymnal, Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Walters Manuscript W.547, fol. 124v completed in 1678. It looks like something from a modern comic book and look at the face of the lady receiving the severed head: look how happy she is. "Look," she appears to be thinking, "I'm getting ahead of myself."
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