Yechhhh! By Lee Duigon
As reported by Snorri Sturluson in "The Heimskringla," King Harald I of Norway fell in love with a witch: actually, he was bewitched by her. When she died unexpectedly, he remained under her spell and left her body lying on their bed for three years. Why not? She hadn’t decayed at all, but still looked young and fresh and beautiful.
The king’s worried advisors finally got him to let them change the dead woman’s bedding. But when they moved the body, three years’ worth of corruption suddenly set in. Before they could burn the putrid mass, “all kinds of worms and adders, frogs and toads and vipers crawled out of it.”
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