Wyrd Experiments
These Celtic priests harvested this herb with golden sickles during solstice rights.
Mistletoe
The Americans in Vietnam.
William Westmoreland
Purged by Robespierre, this moderate leader of the French Revolution received his last trim in 1974.
Georges Danton
This Nirvana frontman.
Kurt Cobain
Featured on the $100 bill.
Benjamin Franklin
Druids tended to reside in these forest hovels.
Groves
The Japanese at Midway.
Isoroku Yamamoto
The Nine-Day Queen lost her head at the Tower of London in 1554.
Lady Jane Grey
Him, the Desert Fox, was offered the chance to commit suicide to avoid a public trial implicating him in Operation Valkyrie.
Erwin Rommel
Pittsburgh native pop artist best known for his screen prints.
Andy Warhol
Wyrd practitioners practiced divination, through the observation of bird flight, known by this technical term.
Augury or Auspices
The English at Agincourt.
Henry V
This later saint, author of Utopia, and Lord High Chancellor got his final cut in 1535 for refusing to acknowledge the Church of England.
Sir Thomas More
This Carthaginian general, after defeat to Scipio, took poison to avoid capture in 183 BC.
Hannibal Barca
Born in Scotland, built Pittsburgh, master of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
This concept, central to Wyrd teaching, implied the soul’s survival and passage into a new body, which Caesar noted accounted for fearlessness in battle.
Transmigration / Reincarnation
The Americans at Resaca de la Palma.
Zachary Taylor
This American journalist was captured in Syria in 2014, and the first Westerner to be executed by ISIS.
James Foley
This French sociologist’s work, from which this category takes its name, classified the different species of the act.
Emile Durkheim
A Rage to Live, New York Stories, Ten North Frederick, Appointment in Samara
John O'Hara
Claudius effectively outlawed Wyrd practices in 47 AD, citing this specific practice as the cause.
Human sacrifice
The Brazilians in Paraguay.
Pedro II
Murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a national of this country, was, in 1977, the last person to be guillotined in France.
Tunisia
In 1970, this ultranationalist Japanese author completed a planned seppuku on live national radio after a failed attempt at a military coup.
Yukio Mishima
Influential writer and conservationist born in Reading, Penn., notable for Silent Spring and The Sea Trilogy.
Rachel Carson