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[Witch signs in forensic medicine of the 16th to 18th centuries]
Archiv Fur Kriminologie
|January 1, 1985
Abstract:
Witch's marks and injecta, two magical phenomena discussed in the law-courts are here examined from the perspective of forensics and medical history. While stigmata were already deprived of their magical aura in the time of Zacchias, injecta continue to puzzle legal medicine for a long time. Gradually the solution is discovered in natural (diseases, dermatology) and psychological (simulation) phenomena.