BLEEDING of a Corpse, a phenomenon superstitiously believed to have been occasionally exhibited by the bodies of persons murdered, which, on the touch, or even the approach of the murderer, began, it was said, to bleed at the nose, ears, and other parts. This circumstance was formerly admitted in England and other parts as a sort of detection of the criminal, and proof of the fact.
BLEEDING of a Corpse
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