Nightmare faces painted on their breasts, riding down the unhorsed Saxons spearing and clubbing them, and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with a peculiar bandy-legged trot like creatures driven to alien forms of locomotion and stripping clothes from the dead, seizing them up by the hair and passing their blades about the heads of the living and the dead alike, snatching aloft the bloody wigs and hacking and chopping at naked bodies, ripping off limbs, heads, gutting the strange white torsos and holding up great handfuls of viscera, genitals some of the savages so slathered up with gore they might have rolled in it like dogs and some who fell upon the dying and sodomized them with loud cries to their fellows - Blood Meridian