Titlebook: Executing Magic in the Modern Era; Criminal Bodies and Owen Davies,Francesca Matteoni Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and

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Owen Davies,Francesca MatteoniProvides the first study of execution magic in the modern era.Demonstrates how beliefs and practices surrounding executions were shaped by changing attitudes towards capital punishment.Explores the co

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Shigeo Asai,Iwao Muchi,Masayuki KawachiThis chapter sets out the aims and scope of the book, and provides contextual discussion on the history of public execution and post-mortem punishment in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. It also explores the changing role of the European executioner over this period, and the sorts of people who became executioners.

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Criminal Bodies,nderstanding the potency of the criminal corpse. The main section of the chapter focuses on the witch as the most powerful of living criminal bodies. There is discussion on phrenological interpretations of criminality and the work of Cesare Lombroso on the ‘born criminal’. The meaning of cruentation

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The Places and Tools of Execution, independent of, the executed criminal. This chapter includes discussion on European gallows traditions, English legends of providential strangulation, and the trade in and lore of the gallows mandrake. It then focuses on the trade in hanging ropes in Europe and America, and the relationship between

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The Corpse Gives Life,n 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 Germany and Scandinavia.