Executing Magic in the Modern Era : : Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine.

• Superior document: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Series
• Author: Davies, Owen.
• TeilnehmendeR: Matteoni, Francesca.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (122 pages)

Table of Contents

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.