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History of Body Snatching

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Regina Jeffers

Body snatching is the secret disinterment of corpses from graveyards. A common purpose of body snatching, especially in the 19th century, was to sell the corpses for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools. Those who practised body snatching were … Continue reading →

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