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Executing Magic in the Modern Era : Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

1st ed. 2017

by Francesca Matteoni , Owen Davies

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
ISBN-10 3319595180
ISBN-13 9783319595184
Edition 1st ed. 2017
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture CH
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 28th, 2017
Print length 118 Pages
Weight 300 grams
Dimensions 15.70 x 22.20 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification: Western EuropeBritish & Irish historySocial & cultural historyCrime & criminologyCrime and criminologyEuropean historySocial and cultural historyHistory of science
Ksh 3,600.00
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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.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license

This 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.

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