TY - BOOK AU - Davies,Owen AU - Matteoni,Francesca TI - Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine T2 - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Ser SN - 9783319595191 AV - HN U1 - 393 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing AG KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ostimteknik/detail.action?docID=6422521 ER -