so what you see here, 1618 the gallows at tyburn england. and what's going to happen here is that from criminals, most likely young males criminals are going to get on and after the hangman or the executioner says okay, they are officially dead, what happened was people would go up to the swinging bodies and if they had a wart on their hand or a boil, they would run it on the dead body. on occasion they would let the body down and cut their neck open, get blood and people who suffered from epilepsy would drink the blood because they knew this was a surefire way to take care of their epilepsy. so courts in cannibalism medicine as horrible and unbelievable as it is to us today was a very commonplace thing for many hundreds of years. those same executioners were in the markets and the sales of human fat. they often got to keep the body after birth if they were , say, given to a medical person for dissection and they would harvest the fat and sell it as a liniment for people who use it on all sorts of things. use it for symptoms of rabies, use i