To guard against bodysnatchers, people took a number of measures, including inventing and patenting special coffins and burial devices.
31 Days of Halloween – October 28
There have been funerary rites for centuries. Across the cultures, one thing that is constant is that it is disrespectful to disturb a tomb. When medicine began to study human anatomy in earnest there was a surge in grave robbing. How else could a student learn? And as various plagues killed massive swathes of the…