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Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
Owen Davies
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Francesca Matteoni
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Saint Philip Street Press
· Hardcover
Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine - Francesca Matteoni ; Owen Davies
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Synopsis "Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine"
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. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
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