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PALGRAVE HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE CRIMINAL COR...

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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