For all their beauty, the hand-drawn works could also be decidedly bloodthirsty. In Talhoffer"s 1467 manual, neat sequences of moves that look almost like dancing end abruptly with swords through eye-sockets, violent impalings, and casual instructions to beat the opponent to death. Some signature techniques even have names – chilling titles like the "wrath-hew", "crumpler", "twain hangings", "skuller" and "four openings".