Executing Magic in the Modern Era : : Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine.
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| Superior document: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Series |
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| 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
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (122 pages) |
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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.