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Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Name: Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 41040751
Price: 1583 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Owen Davies
ISBN: 9783319595191

Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

Owen Davies

Francesca Matteoni

Language

English

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Libristo code: 41040751

Publishers Palgrave Macmillan, July 2017

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history... Full description

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man's hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.