Książka Executing Magic in the Modern Era Owen Davies

Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Na zamówienie
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical histo...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2018
strony
118
EAN
9783319866437
Enbook ID
20119641
Waga
178
Wymiary
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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