"Workers in bogs throughout Europe have often accidentally exposed sunken human bodies that looked to them like incarnate devils. The bog waters have kept the bodies from decay, sometimes even preserving the facial expression at the moment of death. Are they murder victims, sacrificial victims, or executed criminals? Professor Glob noted that the anguished face seemed peaceful when viewed apart from the means of death: the rope still tight around the neck. Later he perceived a connection between these bodies and a fertility goddess often portrayed with neck chains. In The Bog People, Glob unravels the dark, forbidding background of their story."--Publisher's website.