Guibert of Nogent depicted Muhammad dying grotesquely at swine’s mouths

Evidence

In Guibert’s well-known account, pigs overtake Muhammad while he is while having an epileptic seizure and consume his body: … Let us now recount the end of this great and marvelous law-giver. I have already said that he was subject to attacks of epilepsy: one day as he was walking alone, he fell attacked by one of his convulsions, and while he was being tormented by it, some hogs, having come upon him, so completely devoured him that only his heels were found as remains. So thus this excellent law-giver is given over to the swine and eaten by them, so his evil rule was terminated as just, by a most vile end. And certainly, while his heels were left, it was without a doubt so that he could show those fools whom he had miserably seduced a witness of his perfidiousness and deceits. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 100

Categorization

• CANDY: A lurid, memorable medieval tale — Muhammad devoured by pigs after an epileptic seizure, heels left as evidence of his fraud — good elevator-story material.