TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Owen
AU  - Matteoni,Francesca
TI  - Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
T2  - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Series
SN  - 9783319595191
AV  - HN 
U1  - 393 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing AG
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Abstract -- Public Execution and Post-mortem Punishment -- The Executioner -- Criminal Bodies -- Abstract -- The Witch -- The Witch's Blood as a Cure -- Corpses, Evidence and Feelings -- The Corpse Gives Life -- Abstract -- The Criminal Corpse in Pieces -- The Fresh Body -- The Places and Tools of Execution -- Abstract -- Providential Gallows -- The Gallows Mandrake -- The Last of the Executioners' Perquisites -- Money for Old Rope -- Memento or Talisman? An American Perspective -- Lingering Influences -- Abstract -- Hangman's Day -- Ghosts of Executed Criminals -- Suicide Ghosts -- Sanctifying the Executed Spirit -- Spiritualists Reach Out -- Index
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