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Jack the Ripper

noun

An unidentified English murderer in the 19th century.

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... de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique, May-June, 1907) argues that the medieval werwolves were sadists whose crimes were largely imaginative, though sometimes real, the predecessor of the modern Jack the Ripper. The complex nature of the elements making up the belief in the werwolf is emphasized by Ernest Jones, ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... But past history shows that many have been genuine," he said. "Before the commission of nearly all the Jack the Ripper crimes there were anonymous letters, written in red ink. We have them now framed and hanging ...

— The Sign of Silence • William Le Queux

... doctor at the Asylum in Pavia, he was requested to make a post-mortem examination on a criminal named Vilella, an Italian Jack the Ripper, who by atrocious crimes had spread terror in the Province of Lombardy. Scarcely had he laid open the skull, when he perceived at the base, on the spot where the internal occipital crest or ridge is found in ...

— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero