Medieval polemicists had Muhammad die in an epileptic fit eaten by pigs

Evidence

Since he often fell into a sudden epileptic fit, it happened once, while he was walking alone, that he suddenly fell into a fit; while he was writhing in this agony, he was devoured by pigs, so that nothing could be found but his heels. While the true Stoics, that is, the worshipers of Christ, 142 • Forging Polemical Images (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries) killed Epicurus, lo, the greatest lawgiver tried to revive the pig, but the pig itself lay exposed to be eaten by pigs, so that the master of filth appropriately died a filthy death. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 773

Categorization

• SEED: The gruesome invented-death motif (devoured by pigs, only heels left) is a vivid, unsettling example worth mining for how medieval Christians ‘translated’ religious difference into physical disgust — usable in writing on disgust as a polemical weapon.
• XREF: connects to: Medieval polemic assigned Muhammad a death by pigs reflecting his supposed teaching of uncleanness