Scottish Bodysnatchers

Scottish Bodysnatchers
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Publisher : The History Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9780750952767
ISBN-13 : 0750952768
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Scottish Bodysnatchers by : Geoff Holder

Download or read book Scottish Bodysnatchers written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-Victorian Scotland – criminals, gravediggers and middle-class medical students alike abstracted newly-buried corpses to send to the anatomy schools. Only after the trials of the infamous murderers Burke and Hare and the passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832 did the grisly trade end. From burial grounds in the heart of Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh to quiet country graveyards in the Scottish Borders and Aberdeenshire, this book takes you to every cemetery ever raided, and reveals where you can find extant pieces of anti-resurrectionist graveyard furniture, from mortsafes, coffin cages and underground vaults to watchtowers and morthouses. Richly illustrated, filled with hundreds of stories of ‘reanimated’ corpses, daring thefts, black-hearted murders and children sold to the slaughter by their own mothers, and with Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic short story The Body Snatcher at the end, this macabre guide will delight everyone who loves Scotland's dark past.


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