We Could Resurrect Him!

On January 21, 1993 King Louis XVI of the Bourbon Dynasty lay his head upon the guillotine. The blade fell and thus ended the monarchy of France . . . well for a short while, as the Bourbon's were reinstated upon the throne after the Napoleonic Wars. His final words were "I pardon those who are the authors of my misfortune . . ." (which is a pretty cool way to put it, "the authors of", class act on the scaffold).

 As the blood from his head and headless body cascaded across the planks and onto the ground beneath the crowd surged forward, moping it up with their handkerchiefs. It seems now that one of those handkerchiefs was stored in a gourd afterward.

The gourd meandered through history until its contents were proven to be those of Louis XVI's blood. Matched with DNA taken from the severed head of Henry IV (also chopped off during the French Revolution, however it was attached to a body several hundred years dead and in the tomb) the blood stained gourd proved to be blood taken from the best known French King. No doubt someone kept that handkerchief in the gourd on his mantel for years and would claim to his misbehaving children or recalcitrant guests "YOU STAND BEFORE THE BLOOD OF KINGS!