TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Owen
AU  - Matteoni,Francesca
TI  - Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
T2  - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
SN  - 978-3-319-59519-1
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - afterlife
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - eighteenth century
KW  - executions
KW  - Gallows
KW  - Gibbeting
KW  - Hanging
KW  - magical history
KW  - Medical history
KW  - nineteenth century
KW  - twentieth century
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28425
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/05c1090c-4b69-4309-9eb0-a841adf121fe/Bookshelf_NBK464467.pdf
ER  -