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Day: October 26, 2018

Day: October 26, 2018

Book Review: Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

Book Review: Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

  Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine takes an in-depth look at the fascination that the bodies of criminals and their means of execution have exercised over the human mind for many centuries. In the Roman era, the blood of gladiators was believed to have curative properties…

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