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Executing Magic in the Modern Era - Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Executing Magic in the Modern Era - Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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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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