Mortsafe
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A mortsafe or mortcage was a construction designed to protect graves from disturbance, used in the United Kingdom. Resurrectionists had supplied schools of anatomy since the early 18th century. This w
Mortsafes at a church yard in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland
Mortsafes in Cluny kirkyard
A watchtower built in Dalkeith town cemetery, near Edinburgh, in 1827.
An iron coffin mortsafe in Colinton, once a village outside Edinburgh
Body snatching
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Body snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is distinct from the act of grave robbery as grave robbing does not explicitly involve the
Body snatchers at work. A painting on the wall of a public house in Penicuik, Scotland
Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
A cadaver in a dissecting room.
In rural parts of northern India, the lowest classes sometimes cannot obtain wood for cremation or ground for burial, and the exposure of bodies is the result.