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Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Hardback
Book Executing Magic in the Modern Era Owen Davies
Libristo code: 16220027
Publishers Springer International Publishing AG, July 2017
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical his... Full description
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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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About the book

Full name Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Author Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni
Language English
Binding Book - Hardback
Date of issue 2017
Number of pages 118
EAN 9783319595184
ISBN 3319595180
Libristo code 16220027
Publishers Springer International Publishing AG
Weight 300
Dimensions 222 x 157 x 14

Categories

History & Archaeology > History > History: specific events & topics > Social & cultural history
Society & Social Sciences > Social services & welfare, criminology > Crime & criminology
History & Archaeology > History > European history
Mathematics & Science > Science: general issues > History of science
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