Executing Magic in the Modern Era 2017
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59519-1_3
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The Corpse Gives Life

Abstract: This chapter begins by looking at the trade in human fat into the nineteenth century, and how the control over its availability switched from the executioner to the anatomy schools. This, and other developments, led to the decline of the executioner-healer on the Continent. The similar trade in human skin for macabre mementos and magic is explored. The chapter then considers the history of the healing touch of the hanged man's hand in England, and the rise of blood-drinking at beheadings in nineteenth-century … Show more

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