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of the Criminal Court of Great Yarmouth, England, after serving 21 years on the bench, resigned to avoid having to pronounce his first death sentence. Believe it or not. In a moment I'll tell you about the corpse that stopped a mutiny.

Many times superstition and fear changes the course of events in history. When the citizens of Toulouse rebelled against King Henry III of France, they murdered Jean-Durante, Speaker of the local parliament, and as an act of contempt propped up his corpse in front of a portrait of the king he loved and served.

Suddenly a strange thing happened. Daranti's body slipped down to his knees in a position of reverence. The rebels upon witnessing this were so unnerved that they abandoned their mutiny. Believe it or not.