Shrunken Head

The Shrunken Head is a creature and magical object that appears in the thirty-ninth Goosebumps book, How I Got My Shrunken Head, and its television adaptation.

History
The Shrunken Head first appears in How I Got My Shrunken Head, where it gives Mark Rowe an ability that is known as "Jungle Magic."

The Shrunken Head has a hidden cameo in the Goosebumps movie, appearing on the Muglani's staff.

Physical appearance
Mark describes the shrunken head as wrinkled and leathery, and about the size of a tennis ball. Its hair is thin and black, styled with a pony tail. Its eyes are solid and dark.

It has the ability to glow, during which its eyes flash.

It feels warm and sticky, and is hard as a baseball.

There are multiple shrunken heads in the book. Mark's has a thin white scratch on its left ear, left by his sister, Jessica.

Trivia

 * The Shrunken Head appears in Goosebumps: The Game as a usable item, which can be utilized to defeat the Beast from the East.
 * In real life, the creation of shrunken heads was an actual practice once done by the Jivaroan tribes of the Amazon Rainforest, who would cut off and shrink the heads of their enemies to prevent their spirits from escaping and seeking vengeance, as well as serving as a warning to others. The selling and keeping of shrunken heads as curios became popularized in the early 1900s when Western explorers would trade guns for shrunken heads to be displayed and/or sold to tourists.