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024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1$2doi
041 0 $aeng
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072 7 $aHB$2bicssc
100 1 $aDavies, Owen$4aut
245 10 $aExecuting Magic in the Modern Era
260 $aLondon$bPalgrave Macmillan$c2017
300 $a122
520 $aThis 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.
536 $aWellcome Trust
546 $aEnglish.
650 7 $aHistory$2bicssc
653 $aMedical history
653 $amagical history
653 $aexecutions
653 $aafterlife
653 $aeighteenth century
653 $anineteenth century
653 $atwentieth century
700 1 $aMatteoni, Francesca$4aut
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