This method of impalement by lance is also evident in both "The Prophecy" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" where in each movie we see a scene in which hundreds are impaled in the same upright manner.
The banks meeting behind were bare of a hedge, save such as was formed by disconnected tufts of furze, standing upon stems along the top, like impaled heads above a city wall.
And they impaled both of their heads on the gate coming into York and put a paper crown around Richard's head to make fun of him thinking that he could ever be the king.
By the time I was fourteen (and shaving twice a week whether I needed to or not) the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it.
" If it pleases the king, " Esther answered, " give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day's edict tomorrow also, and let Haman's ten sons be impaled on poles" .