 Gilles de Rais is noted to have sexually violated the dead bodies of his victims.According to criminologist Herschel Prins, it was said that until the 19th century, if a betrothed girl in Central Europe died before her marriage day, the spouse could still carry out the ceremony by copulating with the body.During the 18th-century conflict of Peru between rebels of Tupac Amaru and Colonial forces, rebels had sex with dead women.