"Heads were skinned and muscles removed from the brain case in order to remove the skullcap. Incisions and scrapes on jaws indicate that tongues were cut out." "Scrape marks inside the broken ends of limb bones indicate that marrow was removed." "Whatever actually happened at Herxheim, facial bones were smashed beyond recognition." -
Neolithic mass canibalism in southern Germany.
posted by Artw
on Dec 5, 2009 -
85 comments
Human fat was supposed to alleviate rheumatism and arthritis, while a paste made from corpses was believed to help against contusions.... For some Protestants,... , it served as a sort of substitute for the Eucharist, or the tasting of the body of Christ in Holy Communion. Some monks even cooked "a marmalade of sorts" from the blood of the dead.
. . . . The assumption was that all organisms have a predetermined life span. If a body died in an unnatural way, the remainder of that person's life could be harvested, as it were -- hence the preference for the executed.... In 1492, when Pope Innocent VIII was on his deathbed, his doctors bled three boys and had the pope drink their blood. The boys died, and so did the pope.
When we read about
Burundians and
Tanzanians murdering albinos to make "medicine" of their victims, we should not forget that
European Medical Cannabalism was an accepted practice as late as the 18th Century.
posted by orthogonality
on Feb 1, 2009 -
51 comments
Kevin Ray Underwood found guilty of first degree murder in the April 2006 killing of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. The jury only needed 20 minutes to decide on his guilt.
Previously on Metafilter, because he linked here. How could a seemingly
normal, albeit "single, bored and lonely", young man become a cannabalistic child rapist and murderer? Exhibits: The
blog he kept for almost four years up until the day
after the murder. A
collection of misc information about Underwood, including (near the bottom) the text of an online chat he had with a friend after killing Bolin. An
extremely disturbing transcript of his confession to the FBI.
Video footage of the trial. Deliberations will begin Monday as to whether or not he will be sentenced to death.
posted by banishedimmortal
on Feb 29, 2008 -
150 comments
"A group of teenagers, en route to attend a rock concert, lose their way when their car runs out of fuel in the dead of night. They find themselves in an unfamiliar rural backwater where they are confronted by flesh-eating zombies and a psychotic cannibalistic killer dressed in a sheet. It could be the plot to a thousand Hollywood horror films but while these teenagers may dress, talk and smoke dope like young Americans they are in fact young Pakistanis, and the film -
Zibahkhana or Hell's Ground -
is the first modern horror film to be filmed in Pakistan."
posted by brundlefly
on Aug 15, 2007 -
12 comments
This is NSFW. It's crass, crude, cheap, rude, nasty and vulgar. This is a one link 10 minute YouTube video that shows cannibalism, fire, nudity, nerds, fried sperm, rednecks, and perversion aplenty. It is certainly not to everyone's taste, but that's because it's the Butthole Surfers'
BBQ.
posted by Elmore
on Feb 16, 2007 -
49 comments
Guess who we're having for dinner? Danish shock artist Marco Evaristti lippoed some of his belly fat,
fried meatballs in it and
served it, partaking himself. He also canned some of the
Polpette al grasso di Marco and sold at least two cans for
$23,200 each. Cannibalism? Extreme autophagy? Trenchant comment on plastic surgery, taboos and consumerism? Or just really really gross?
posted by CunningLinguist
on Jan 17, 2007 -
70 comments
Chef Kazuki Yamamoto will cook just about anything. Casting aside all concern for the law, he prepares exotic dishes for celebrities and the ultra-rich. No species is off limits; his dishes have included penguin, walrus, whale, seal, dolphin, hippo, rhino, sea lion, chimpanzee, gorilla, monkey, brown bear, gazelle, giraffe, zebra, mountain lion, sea turtle, gila monster, ferruginous pygmy owl, bighorn sheep, Bichon Frise, and (it is claimed) human.
posted by Rhomboid
on May 13, 2006 -
44 comments
Main Course or Colonel Kurtz? Michael was a Harvard graduate, but otherwise refused to follow in his father's footsteps. After graduating cum laude and serving a hitch in the army, he went to New Guinea as a member of the Harvard Peabody Museum expedition. As he explained it, "I have the desire to do something romantic and adventurous at a time when frontiers in the real sense of the word are disappearing." In 1961,
Michael Rockefeller, fortunate son of the first order, disappeared while
studying the
Asmat people of New Guinea. Questions remain, however. Was he, indeed, eaten by the Asmat, who had a rumored history of cannibalism, or did he decide to go native? At least
one documentary has explored this.
posted by John of Michigan
on Dec 18, 2005 -
14 comments
"I sat down to it with my bottle of wine, a bowl of rice, salt and pepper at hand. I had thought about this and planned it for a long time, and now I was going to do it. I was going to do it, furthermore -- I had promised and told myself -- with a completely casual, open, and objective mind. But I was soon to discover that I had bluffed and deceived myself a little in pretending so detached an attitude." The problems of
researching what you and I actually taste like.
[Previous threads]. [Via]
posted by Ogre Lawless
on Dec 2, 2005 -
43 comments
I yearn for your tasty flesh [ Gene Study Finds Cannibal Pattern ] -
"Deep in the recesses of the human heart, lurking guiltily beneath the threshold of consciousness, there may lie a depraved craving — for the forbidden taste of human flesh. The basis for this morbid accusation, made by a team of researchers in London, is a genetic signature, found almost worldwide, that points to a long history of cannibalism" (NYT)
posted by troutfishing
on Apr 11, 2003 -
45 comments
Man films himself eating dead baby and calls it "art" this calls to question many things. Such as cultural taboos and the importance of accepting the factor of
"moral relativity". While I may find cannibalism to be sickening - some societies, such as the
Anasazi apparently did not. Of course, even some in our culture can sympathize with the events that involved the
Donner Party - but of course, eating a dead baby in the name of art is not a matter of survival, now is it? Can this be called art? Is doing something solely for the sake of shock value truly art?
At least there's always the
humorous side of things [site appears down for now?], I suppose, even if some people
don't get it.
posted by twiggy
on Jan 1, 2003 -
33 comments
And this just in, from Germany ... This story is all the rage over there. It's a little too sick to describe, so I'll let you do the reading. What I find odd is that this article (from the English version of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) says he might have been "inspired by Jeffrey Dahmer," and the article in the NYTimes quotes a German saying he would expect this sort of thing in America, but not in his own country.
So I ask you: When did America become the home of ritualistic cannibals?
posted by risenc
on Dec 18, 2002 -
33 comments
30 years ago, a group of Uruguayan rugby players
traveled to Chile to play a game against a local team. Their plane crashed in the Andes Mountains. The 27 who survived the crash were forced to eat their teammates in order to survive. After 72 days in the mountains,
16 were rescued. Their story was told in the
book Alive and later a
movie by the same name. Today those survivors reunited in Chile and finally played the rugby game. The Uruguayans
won.
posted by einarorn
on Oct 13, 2002 -
10 comments
One Man's Meat Is Another's Person. There are certain words which evoke powerful images and emotions. One such word is
Cannibalism. There is a lot of
myth and truth about this nearly universally distained practice. But it has happened in the
United States and virtually everywhere, at one time or another. If religion were removed from the equation would cannibalism still be wrong? Is the fear of cannibalism learned or is it a self preservation instinct which might get in the way of self preservation when starving to death? Is it the last
taboo?: We eat meat and we are meat.
posted by Mack Twain
on Jul 29, 2002 -
76 comments
Search wasn't working. Has there been a
cannibalism link for a while? Interesting thought-experiment: If you were a cannibal, what celebrity would you most like to eat? Why? Neat how this turns all the
"thin is in" BS on its head --
Camryn Mannheim, anyone?
posted by luser
on May 22, 2001 -
3 comments
The Anti-Chagnon: Tobias Schneebaum reminisces
Schneebaum falls squarely into the romantic camp. "I'm not an anthropologist, and I didn't go to Peru to gather information
," he says with mild distaste. "I wanted to meet people and have a good time. I never thought about if I was exploiting anybody. I was doing something that thrilled me, and that was the only thing on my mind." Ugh, I can't tell which is worse...
posted by rschram
on Mar 26, 2001 -
4 comments
Mmmmm. Hu-ming. A British archaeologist finds evidence that cannibalism still existed amongst the Celts as recently as two thousand years ago, during Roman Times.
One grisly find includes a femur which had been split lengthways in order to scrape the marrow out. Tastemungus mates :)
posted by zeoslap
on Feb 28, 2001 -
6 comments
"What is most disturbing about these people is their banality, their normalness... It's the fact that these people are chatting and they are horribly normal, everyday people, yet they are capable of
these acts of unimaginable savagery."
Tired of politics and Survivor 2? Let's talk about
real cannibalism!
posted by lia
on Feb 17, 2001 -
6 comments
