Body snatching
Body snatching is the illegal removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is different from the act of grave robbery as grave robbing does not exactly involve the removal of the corpse, but instead the theft from the burial site itself.[1][2] The term 'body snatching' mainly means the removal and sale of corpses for the purpose of dissection or anatomy lessons in medical schools.[3]
The first recorded case of body snatching was in China and it dates back to 506 BC, when Wu Zixu dug up the corpse of King Ping of Chu to beat his corpse.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 河南兩農民盜屍配陰婚 年輕女屍最高可賣7萬元 Archived 2010-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "记者采访"冥婚"怪像 年轻智障女子险被卖掉配阴婚". 中国日报网 (in Chinese). 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2025-04-11.
- ↑ "Body Snatching Around The World | History Detectives". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ 司马迁. 《史記·伍子胥列傳》.“及吳兵入郢，伍子胥求昭王，既不得，乃掘楚平王墓，出其屍，鞭之三百，然後已。”
