Kim Traynor. Body snatchers at work, Old Crown Inn, Penicuik.JPG
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"Body snatching is the act of digging up newly buried bodies for the purpose of selling them to hospitals and anatomists to dissect for reasearch, teaching or experimentation" (Cardin, p.372). In the 18th and 19th centuries, if a scientist was unable to acquire a body legally, often they hired "the body snatchers" and paid them handsomely.
Encyclopedia of the Zombie by 
Nights of the Living Dead: an anthology by A zombie is a corpse that has been either supernaturally or scientifically reanimated. Quotes about zombies:
"Life-impaired fellow citizens", (Maberry, p.xix)
"Have you ever talked to a corpse. It's boring." Jack Goodman (Griffin Dunne), An American Werewolf in London (1981).
"They're not dead exactly, they're just...sort of rotting." Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme), Dead Alive (1992).
Cropped and edited lobby card for The Mummy (Universal, 1932), taken from a PD theatrical poster.
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A mummy is a corpse of a human or animal preserved through a chemical process, often associated with ancient Egypt.
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