But the thought of the death-Spancel must have come straight from the King of Fiends himself, for who else would harden the human heart to desecrate a new grave, and to cut from the helpless dead the strip of skin unbroken from head to heel which is the death-Spancel?
"An Isle in the Water"
Katharine Tynan
In the morning he awoke sick and sorry, a strange mood for Robert Molyneux; but from midnight to dawn he had lain with the death-Spancel about his knees.
"An Isle in the Water"
Katharine Tynan
But Mauryeen Holion, Dark Mauryeen, as they called her, would not to her last breath yield up the death-Spancel which she had knotted round her waist, and which held Robert Molyneux's love to her.
"An Isle in the Water"
Katharine Tynan