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Body Snatching in the 1800's

How they did body snatching

Step: 1

They would send a spy to the funeral. They would see how the body was buried and all the details for later that night.

Step: 2

One member of the team had the job of transport. He would drive a wagon a short distance from the cemetery and hide in an inconspicuous spot.

Two other men would be charged with digging up the body. While one dug, the other kept watch for anyone who might see them. With a tarp, a rope, a crowbar, and wooden shovels, the men would go to work. The body snatchers would lay the tarp by the grave so the nearby grounds were undisturbed.

Step: 3

Step: 4

Digging was done with a wooden spade, which was quieter than those made of metal. The digging would be done at the head of the grave until the coffin was reached.

When they reached the head of the coffin, the resurrectionists would use a crowbar to break open the coffin.

Step: 5

the purpose of body snatching

why they did body snatching

why they did body snatching

The body snatchers were often lower class men that don’t have as big of income so to get some extra money they would steal bodies and send them to medical schools.

What would happen to the bodies

What would happen to the bodies

They would be cut open and used to teach lesson on anatomy. Most of the anatomy lessons around this time were mainly dissecting to see where the body were. And they also used bodies from people who had a death sentence and would use those bodies as well.

Why it matters in Frankenstein

why it matters in Frankenstein

When Victor Frankenstein was creating the monster he had taken many different bodies and put them together to make the monster and the way we believe he got those bodies was body snatching.

Summary

summary

Summary:

Summary:

From this project I have learned that it takes a lot of people to do body snatching. If you want a simple way to make some quick money you steal a body and sale it to a school. Victor used body snatching to get his pieces of body for the creature.

Work Cited

Work Cited

“CemeteryIndex.com.”

CemeteryIndexcom, cemeteryindex.com/wordpress/featured-cemeteries/mt-washington-cemetery/julie-rimer-historical-ramblings/body-snatching-in-the-1800s/.

"A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist, William Hunter (1718-1783), runs away". 28 October 2014. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qxurxepz CC-BY-4.0

"Bishop's Cottage, Nova Scotia Gardens - where Carlo Ferrari was hung head first into a well to drown". 2 October 2014. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/aa9vz7pt CC-BY-4.0

"A still from the film Frankenstein (1910)". 15 March 1915. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=victor+frankenstein&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%22namespaces%22%3A%5B6%2C12%2C14%2C100%2C106%2C0%5D%7D&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1&ns0=1#/media/File:Victor_frankenstein1910.jpg

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