Judge Henry Jodrell 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. 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 Duranty, 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. Duranty'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!
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