[Grut]

It's somewhere in Grass's "The Tin Drum." This passage may satisfy your curiousity without invoking disaster:

...but Oskar says it was the memory of the eels in the severed horse's head, and the fear of seeing it again, that did her in."

Martin Cruz Smith has a somewhat similar scene involving hagfish and a drowned woman in "Polar Star."

[Zionist Conspirator]

...but Oskar says it was the memory of the eels in the severed horse's head, and the fear of seeing it again, that did her in."

Thank you.

What are eels doing in a severed horse's head? The head was in the water, I assume? Of course, the female eels, leaving their male companions behind at the seashores, are the ones who swim up river into the countryside and also crawl for short distances on dry ground and get into landlocked ponds and lakes. So it's possible the horse's head was somewhere in the path of a mass swimming of female eels. But then, would they be "pollulating?"