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Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017

1 online resource (122 pages)

ISBN 9783319595191 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9783319595184

Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Ser.

Print version: Davies, Owen Executing Magic in the Modern Era Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2017 ISBN 9783319595184

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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(OCoLC)1167071727