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The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore Mary Lancaster NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyoneWhat significance did the body have for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre industrial age? The human body was a constant prey to disease, plague, unhealthy living conditions, the evil effects of druggery and nutritional deficiency, yet the saints seemed to testify to the existence of life beyond this, to a tangible Garden of Eden where all suffering was reversed. The right to entry to this haven was also