Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Name: Executing Magic in the Modern Era
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Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

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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.

Author Biography:

Owen Davies is Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on the history of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, and popular medicine. Francesca Matteoni worked on 'Strand 4: The Dead Sustaining Life' of the Wellcome Trust funded project, 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse'. She has also published in Italian and English on early-modern blood beliefs, familiars, and the use of criminal body parts.

Release date Australia

July 28th, 2017

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Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Edition

1st ed. 2017

Illustrations

VII, 118 p.

Pages

118

Series

Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

ISBN-13

9783319595184

Product ID

26798022

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