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Executing magic in the modern era = criminal bodies and the gallows in popular medicine /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Executing magic in the modern era/ by Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni.
Reminder of title:	criminal bodies and the gallows in popular medicine /
Author:	Davies, Owen.
other author:	Matteoni, Francesca.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	vii, 118 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Dead. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1
ISBN:	9783319595191

Executing magic in the modern era = criminal bodies and the gallows in popular medicine /
Davies, Owen.

Executing magic in the modern eracriminal bodies and the gallows in popular medicine /[electronic resource] :by Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - vii, 118 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife. - Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife..

1. Introduction -- 2. Criminal Bodies -- 3. The Corpse Gives Life -- 4. The Places and Tools of Execution -- 5. Lingering Influences -- Index.

Open access.

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.

ISBN: 9783319595191

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1199000
Dead.

LC Class. No.: GT3150 / .D36 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 306.09

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