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"Because I parted persons so united, Parted do I now bear my brain, alas!
From its beginning, which is in this trunk. Thus is observed in me the counterpoise."
[«Perch' io parti' così giunte persone, partito porto il mio cerebro, lasso!,
dal suo principio ch'è in questo troncone. Così s'osserva in me lo contrapasso».]
Dante, The Divine Comedy, trans. Mandelbaum, Inferno, Canto XXVIII, v. 139-142 [Bertran de Born].

Kainé: We don't need forgiveness, asshole!

"So she gave him a slap, and his head went flying off. Little Marlene was so terrified that she began 
sobbing. Then she ran to her mother and said: "Mother, I've knocked my brother's head off!" 
And she cried so hard that she couldn’t stop. 
"Little Marlene," said her mother, "what a dreadful thing you've done! But don't breathe a word 
to anyone, for there's nothing we can do. We'll cook him up in a stew."
Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm, The Juniper Tree (Von dem Machandelboom), Household Tales, 1812.

[From Philipp Otto Runge, Von dem Machandel Boom, Zeitung für Einsiedler, Heidelberg, 1808, p. 229:
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/einsiedler/0144/image,info]