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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-471742023-12-20T16:25:01Z Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine Francesca Matteoni Owen Davies K5000-5582 witchcraft and magic medical humanities capital punishment bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKV Crime & criminology::JKVG Drugs trade / drug trafficking 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. 2021-02-11T13:14:11Z 2021-02-11T13:14:11Z 2017-11-23 15:55:19 2017 book 24600 0 9783319595191 9783319595184 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47174 eng Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319595184 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59519-1 Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1 d27cd9b0-53e1-403f-a4c8-b180427f6be6 9783319595191 9783319595184 118 open access |
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