Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

Autor: Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Springer International Publishing AG

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical histo...

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Autor

Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2018

Stránek

118

EAN

9783319866437

Enbook ID

20119641

Vydavatel

Springer International Publishing AG

Hmotnost

178

Rozměry

148 x 210 x 14

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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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