Note 878 — Chapter XXVIII · FISHING WITH THE HAIR OF THE DEAD
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Aristotle (H. A., III. 11), states that the hair does grow in dead bodies. Since his time many descriptions of remarkable growth after death have been published, and many people believe that such growth does take place. Erasmus Wilson pronounces that “the lengthening of the hairs observed in a dead person is merely the result of the contraction of the skin towards their bulb.”