Told by the Death's Head

by Mór Jókai

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Told by the Death's Head is the title of a book whose preface says its writer once came across a skull that is said to swing, enclosed in a metal casket, from an iron bar in the foundry of Ehrenbreitstein fortress. The preface also calls an empty shell of human wisdom the bearer of no less than twenty-one mortal sins, with each crime noted.

An accused person is asked, What is your name?, and answers that in Podolia the name is Jaroslav Tergusko, in Zbarasz Zdenko Kohaninsky and in Odessa Frater Hilarius. To the question What is your religion? the answer is that the speaker was born an Augsburg Confession heretic and became a Socinian when going to Cracow. A bar-room scene has the inn-keeper's wife accusing the soldiers of stealing the thaler given to her by the sergeant for the beer.

About the author

Mór Jókai

Mór Jókai (1825-1904), also known as Maurus Jókai, was Hungary's most popular and prolific novelist and a leading voice of its Romantic era. A participant in the 1848 revolution, he went on to write more than a hundred novels celebrating Hungarian history, landscape, and national character.