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Carte Executing Magic in the Modern Era Francesca Matteoni

Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

Autor: Francesca Matteoni, Owen Davies
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Saint Philip Street Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early tw...

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Autor
Francesca Matteoni, Owen Davies
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2020
Pagini
124
EAN
9781013289064
ISBN
1013289064
Enbook ID
33354545
Editura
Saint Philip Street Press
Greutate
304
Dimensiuni
216 x 279 x 7

Descriere completă

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.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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