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That sounds pretty amazing Angel.
The fact that you felt you were being srangled was very interesting. In the early to mid Victorian & pre Victorian days of hanging the noose would have been placed around the neck & then the person would have been lifted strate up off the ground.
They would have died of slow strangulation. It could have taken 15 to 30 minutes to have died in this way.
One case that I have heard of, was of a woman whose baby died The woman was tried for its murder & was found guilty.
She was sentanced to hang.
It is said that it took her 30 minutes to die of slow strangulation.
In those days after an execution, the dead would have been taken for medical studies. where their bodies would have been cut up for medical experiments. All prisoners to be executed were terrified of this. In fact they were more terrified by this than being hung.
In Victorian times the body had to be whole for the spirit to make its way to heaven.
Anyway the woman after being hung was taken to the anatomist for medical studies.
Just as the anatomist was about to start doing these medical studies he see the woman breath. At first he could not belive what he had seen but on further investigation of her body he found that she was still alive but only just.
He revived her to full health.
It was then that the poor woman was told that she would have to go on trial for the murder of her baby again.
This time at her trial there was a huge diference to her first trial.
The midwife who was not alould in court at her first trial was there. The midwife told the court that the baby had died in child birth & that the woman was inocent of murder.
The woman went on to marry & within a few years she & her husband had three babys of their own.
At the time of her survived hanging it was believed that it was divine intervention that saved her from death
I saw this on a programe about a year back. It was about the tales of hanging & medical anatomists in the 18th century. Unfortunatly I can not remember the womans name
Best wishes
Eddie
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