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Executing Magic in the Modern Era
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Owen Davies, Francesca Matteoni

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 lace…

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1
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978-3-319-59519-1
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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