Ghost of the Tap Dancer

"The only sound he made was a rhythmic clicking on the road surface, as if he were dancing down the street with metal taps on his shoes. But he wore no shoes. In fact, his two feet were gone and the boney stilts of two tibiae - chipping and fracturing with each step against the pavement - were the source of the tapping."

From the probably false but extremely compelling tales of "To hell and back : the last train from Hiroshima" by Charles R. Pellegrino