cases of cultural cannibalism cited by explorers, missionaries, and anthropologists. His findings were that many were steeped in racism, unsubstantiated, or based on second-hand or hearsay evidence. In combing the literature he could not find a single credible eye-witness account. And, as he ...
Cole grew up in California and would ultimately go on to commit a crazed murder spree, killing “loose women” across multiple states, including Nevada, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Texas, and, of course, California.[2]He was a drunk who drifted and killed as he moved along. He was actually caught...
活吃In some cases, flesh was cut from living people. An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali (later a citizen of Pakistan), testified that in New Guinea: "the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers. I personally saw...
Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period....
The cannibals are only joking. But the Christians on board don’t take cannibalism so lightly. In the early nineteenth century, as I mentioned above, there were more than a few cases of sailors reduced to cannibalism by shipwreck or famine. The stories appeared in newspapers, ballads, broadshe...
Survival cannibalism is a last resort. In the case of one groupadrift in a lifeboat, 116 days passed without food before the party turned to eating human flesh. In most cases, anything even remotely resembling food was first eaten. Dogs, candles, leather, shoes and blankets are all consumed...
What makes cannibalism wrong in ordinary cases (in addition to the act of murdering another human being) is the disregard it shows for the human body which shares in the image of God through its relation to the soul. It is not only our soul that is made in the image of God, but the...