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1. Body snatchingBody snatching is the secret disinterment of corpses from graveyards. A common purpose of body snatching is to sell the corpses for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools. Those who practised body snatching were often called "resurrectionists" or "resurrection-men. " A related act is grave robbery, uncovering a tomb or crypt to steal artifacts or personal effects rather than corpses.
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