This involved preventing the ghost of a murder victim from returning to haunt their killer by cutting off the corpse 's extremities and stringing them under its armpits .
Fragment 623 indicates that Achilles mutilated Troilus ' corpse by a method known as maschalismos .
This involved preventing the ghost of a murder victim from returning to haunt their killer by cutting off the corpse 's extremities and stringing them under Achilles ' armpits .
Fragment 623 indicates that Achilles mutilated Troilus ' corpse by a method known as maschalismos .