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A ghoul is traditionally a living person who steals from the dead, and it was quite an occupation back in the early 1900s when incidents…

People were constantly losing their heads in the previous two centuries. It was so bad that it was rather common news that bodiless heads were…

A person’s tattoos usually have a strong, personal meaning, but in the early 1900s, tattoos often marked a person as a member of the criminal…

This original report, made by a reporter who witnessed the guillotine execution of Danvers, is the first mention I have found on the bloodiness and…

In 1898, a strange contraption called a death helmet was said to soon take the place of the guillotine. However, the death helmet was far…

There is no denying that the guillotine made fast work of executions and that Deibler and his assistants made the executions run smoothly, with little…

Parties and celebrations often began before the execution of a criminal in France, but sometimes, especially when the criminal was a murderer, the parties went…

Anatole Deibler, France’s former high executioner who oversaw the use of the guillotine on hundreds of condemned criminals, was asked whether or not it hurt…

After someone made his appointment with the National Razor (guillotine), he was whisked away from the scene and taken to a burial ground where family…

Books have been written on the origin of Easter and all of its symbolism. The article below was originally published in 1899, and it is…