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Trolling online for stuff as one does.....came across a bio of St Margaret, Queen of Scotland, at About.com....which states the following:

After Her Death: Of her relics, Mary, Queen of Scots, later had possession of Saint Margaret's head.

They were forever keeping dead body parts of important people...the heart, a finger, sometimes a whole hand, etc.

Or as in the case of "mad" Joanna (Catherine of Arragon's sister), she lugged the whole body of her dead husband around with her!

Hey Darnley! Come look at what I have just found!

Why it's Queen Maggie's head lying there on the ground!

I think that I'll keep it to bring me some luck

When the Yankees arrive and the Scots go amuck!

I'll fix it up pretty and buy it a wig,

I'll make up it's eyes so they look really big!

It'll sit on my dresser and watch as I sleep

I am happy I found it, and it's mine to keep!

I'll cherish it always to be my best friend

And I'll tote it around till my days come to end!

One day I might need it to make a repair

If they cut off my own, then I'll have one to spare.

Mary, Queen of Scots

No, it was the head. Not all that unusual really...as has been said, they saved all sorts of body parts of the "dearly departed". Very common practice then.

Yes, I know, but her head?!!<o:p></o:p>

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They dug her up, to move her to a more fitting spot when they made her a saint, didn’t they? When (apparently) the body couldn’t be moved until they moved Malcolm with her. I can’t help feeling her that her family and descendents might have thought it a tad disrespectful to cut off her head!!<o:p></o:p>

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Not that I put it past Mary or anybody else of her time to carry around what she thought was the head of a saint. I’m just having difficulty (still!) believing that it was Margaret’s. However, I’m prepared to be proved wrong!<o:p></o:p>

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Jean<o:p></o:p>

“An Endless Exile” by Mary Lancaster is available from http://www.mushroom-ebooks.com/authors/lancaster_mary/endlessexile.html<o:p></o:p>

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Painter slays me ROFLMFAO

Hey Mary! Gimme back my head!

I doesn't matter that I'm dead!

I want it back! Surrender now

Or I will pay you back somehow!

I got some clout, cuz I'm a saint,

And that is something that you ain't!

You sinned a lot, while I was pure

And you'll get yours for this, I'm sure!

Big deal that you are still the queen,

Your dirty laundry's being seen!
Up here in heaven's crystal ball

Your secret life is seen by all!

I'm Maggie! Saint of all the Scots,

Like Sally Field, they love me lots!

But you my dear, will be despised

For all the plots that you disguised.

Now I'm not gonna be your friend

Cuz severed necklines will not mend,

And all your sins won't set you free,

You took my head away from me!

OMG.....reading Painter's latest here & dying laughing because all I can think of is MQOS playing with it like it was one of them giant Barbie heads ROFLMFAO

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