Resurrectionists

The stealing of human organs might seem ridiculous, but it had been barely fifty years since the infamous case of Burke and Hare, the "Resurrectionists" - or body snatchers - who were charged with robbing graves and committing as many as thirty murders to supply doctors and medical schools in Edinburgh with anatomical specimens for dissection.

Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930

Stancii said, "The Resurrectionists are a myth Besand's bunch use to keep themselves employed."

The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

The Resurrectionists is a more song-orientated CD which kind of spells out the messages and is a lot more straight forward.

CHARTattack:News Feed 2009

"Resurrectionists;" a class of depraved wretches whose only employment is that of body-snatching, or robbing the graves of their dead; from which they derive a ready and lucrative emolument.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

Turns out that during her childhood the narrator of "Houndwife" met one of the Ladies of the Stephens Ward Tea League and Society of Resurrectionists and ... well ... you'll see.

Ostara '10 greygirlbeast 2010

Turns out that during her childhood the narrator of "Houndwife" met one of the Ladies of the Stephens Ward Tea League and Society of Resurrectionists and ... well ... you'll see.

Ostara '10 greygirlbeast 2010

Turns out that during her childhood the narrator of "Houndwife" met one of the Ladies of the Stephens Ward Tea League and Society of Resurrectionists and ... well ... you'll see.

Ostara '10 greygirlbeast 2010

Resurrectionists prided themselves on leaving clothing and jewelry behind.

Kate Kelly: Medical Knowledge Used to Depend on Grave Robbing 2009

He finds an anchorite, a woman living a solitary religious life as a hermit; a community of Resurrectionists seeking an ancient race of aliens who supposedly lived on the planet millennia ago; and a strange pair of an elderly man and his simpleton brother who has visions of the future, one of which seemingly involves Cole.

Archive 2007-08-01 adamosf 2007

The Resurrectionists left with smiles and signed pa­pers.

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990