Cannibalism: Fact and Fiction

Cannibalism is an ancient taboo, but how often has it actually occurred? Join the guys as they explore the grisly rumors and frightening facts behind history’s stories of cannibalism.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to know. Hello,
welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. I

(00:21):
am no, they call me Ben. Hopefully you have a
name as well. Welcome to stuff they don't want you
to know. Ladies and gentlemen, as Timothy Leary used to say,
turn on, tune in, drop out of the mainstream. Malarkey,
have we got a show for you? You know what
I say, Ben? What's that? Malarkey? Sch malarkey? You have

(00:42):
said that often? Yeah, you know what I always say?
What's that? Don't eat other humans? But is it wrong
to eat people? I think so in our modern society. Sure.
You guys were not here to make judgment calls. Okay,
We're here to report the facts and the you know,

(01:02):
conjectures surrounding said topic. Yes, that is correct, nol. We
are looking at cannibalism fact and fiction today. As Matt
pointed out just a second ago, cannibalism is a taboo.
It is a great and it's an ancient taboo, but
it is also a practice that is as old as

(01:23):
human civilization older the Western civilization, as old as the
passage of the stars first measured by man. It may
predate civilization. There is evidence that human beings, you know,
we did our earlier show on the difference, let's say,

(01:45):
demo reels of what would become modern humanity. Dennisovans, Neanderthals,
the Hobbits out in Indonesia. There's evidence that I thought
they lived in New Zealand. New Zealand. Oh that was
the worst I've been working. I had a pretty good
New Zealand accent for a while. You should watch Hunt
for the Wildered People. You'll get in real quick. You know.

(02:07):
Flight at the Concords helped me with it. Some of
the same folks, some of the same folks. D Mary
Mary's in it. Maybe he plays a conspiracy theory. Not
who lives in the bush? It's on It's on the
top of my must be fantastic. Yeah, all right, but
well no, we're all we're all digressing together. And what
what else is a conversation if not a series of

(02:29):
Matroshka dolls? You know? Uh So. There is evidence though
that even before the Homo sapien that we know now
was on the scene early man was eating itself. Yeah,
there's this place called Gos Cave in Somerset, England, and
in this cave there were discovered animal bones and human

(02:51):
bones that were placed together. It's from fifteen thousand years ago,
that's when these these bones were placed in there. The
bones displayed evidence of the fleshing, the skin ripping off
of it, marrow extraction, like crushing those bones and getting
all the good insides out of delicious marrow and get this.
Human teeth marks on both animal and human bones, which

(03:15):
is which is horrifying, but still not quite proof positive
of cannibalism. I mean, obviously it's damning evidence, but they're
the only The only proof positive we have of cannibalism
is actually found in human feces because there is a

(03:39):
protein that can only come from human flesh that will
end up in human feces if someone is eating someone else.
You like how we're we're getting right to the grossest part. Yeah,
this is this is great. I'm loving this especially I'm
imagining all the different things that people could be doing

(04:00):
while listening to this. That's actually the tagline for cannibalism
is I'm loving this. Yeah, Yeah, McDonald's took it too.
I'm loving it. But now we changed the word. Okay,
we changed the word uh, the same way Vanilla Ice
took that Queen's. Remember he did get sued though, yeah
he did. Did he win? I don't know. So let's

(04:23):
put this in the historical context. The fancy five dollar
word for cannibalism is anthropopagy. And my girlfriend loves their clothes,
but I find them really overpriced. Boy, and they keep
eating their customers, right, not cool. I feel so worried
about you every time you go into that store. I try,
I try to avoid it at all costs. So here's

(04:44):
here's the deal with cannibalism. For a long, long time,
accusations of cannibalism have been used to dehumanize groups of
other people. Right Crystal Bala Cologne Street named Christopher Columbus
rationalized some horrific things he did to the natives of

(05:08):
the Caribbean by saying that he was bringing Christianity to cannibals,
or that he was, you know, stopping their acts through
somehow slavery and mass pillaging and rape. But yeah, he
also said that the native people's that he met when
he landed the Arawak I think his name of the

(05:29):
tribe in North America, and they they told him, or
allegedly they told him, that there was a another group
it was outside of theirs that practice cannibalism, and hey, Christopher,
you should be careful those guys. Don't go near them.
They were really doing a massala. He really did not
pay it forward. No, he said, great, move new slaves.
But there Yeah, but there was also no evidence and

(05:52):
there has been no evidence to show that that was true. Right,
so we see that cannibalism is one of the ultimate
on accusation satitions. Yeah, it certainly can exist almost as
like a specter where people are suspected of doing a
thing and you kind of like there is this lingering
you know, do they don't they? Well, we heard they did,
so we better steer clear, you know that kind of thing, right,

(06:13):
or we our community is acting in self defense rather
than aggression. Legends of adjacent cannibal groups are across six
of the seven continents, unless something's going on in Antarctica
that we are not aware of at this time. But
we do know that this great debate is aside from

(06:37):
that socio political context. We do know that cannibalism does occur.
As Matt pointed out, it occurred repeatedly and often in
ancient times. It also it also occurs in the past
and the recent past, recent enough that people you know,
including maybe yourself depend on when you're born, were alive

(07:01):
when acts of cannibalism occurred. And it also occurs in
isolated incidents via individuals. So are question today will be
how prevalent is cannibalism, how much of this stuff is
a rumor, how much of it is fact? And to
do that we're gonna lean on an article at our

(07:21):
parent website, How Stuff Works, and you can check it
out now. It's how cannibalism works, written by josh Clark
of Stuff you should know. Oh yeah, that's right, Joshua.
With this one. That guy's into some freaky stuff, sure is. No, Hey, no,
what's the first type of cannibalism? Well, I'm glad you asked, Ben,
It just so happens. The first type of cannibalism is

(07:43):
what's known as survival cannibalism. So this is sort of
a Donner Party esque kind of situation, So consuming human
flesh and the hopes of surviving long enough to eat
something else, so not for fundsies, not for funsies. Unfortunately,
sometimes that time for eating other things, delicious nuggets, chicken nuggets, whatever,
never comes, so you end up kind of you know,

(08:03):
exhausting your uh, your buddies in the form of you know,
digesting their flesh, and then you're left to starve and
also feel like a terrible, monstrous human person. Yes, here's
an example. In the eighteen hundreds, four men on a
yacht named the Mignonette were sailing from England to Australia

(08:25):
and they were stranded in a lifeboat after their yacht
sank in the Atlantic. They were adrift for more than
two months, and they they captured one sea turtle and
rationate as they could. They eventually ran out of meat.
One of the men was a sailor named Richard Parker,
and he got so desperately thirsty that he dranks seawater,

(08:49):
and of course his health declined more precipitously than his
three surviving shipmates. As he lingered between death and life,
with morbidity looming in front of him, the shipmates said,
will kill him and eat him rather than waiting for

(09:10):
him to die of natural causes, and there's a brutal
logic to that as well that we can explore. I'm
I'm just gonna really quickly point something out here, and
it just struck me. Have you seen Life of Pie? Yes,
I'm aware of that. I've not seen anything. Isn't the
tiger's name Richard Park? Yes? Huh? And they're like stranded
on a ship spoiler alert so much as like the

(09:33):
whole movie. Yeah, thing it all right? Sorry, but that's
interesting and the Life of Pie, which is a wonderful book,
and uh, I was a fan of the film as well.
We see the shipwreck situation repeated in fiction. Unfortunately, this
fiction is based on fact because for a very long

(09:55):
time it was a code of the sea. It was
understood that if people were stranded and the shipwreck, someone
may well end up being consumed by the other people.
And oddly enough another twist here is uh For fans
of Ed Grallan Poe and the Paranormal. Around the same time,

(10:19):
roughly and Grollan Poe wrote a short story called The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pim. He wrote that in eight
and that's pen p y m, which follows almost exactly
the real life story of Richard Parker. Is it synchronicity?
Is it a young Gian super consciousness? Is it? So?

(10:42):
Did he hear about it maybe and then wrote about it?
Did you hear about it before it happened? Or did
you do it to them? Did he somehow do it
to them? But speaking of the ritual, what is it
the ritual of the sea or the code of the
code of the sea. I've got three straws here, boys,
I don't think we've reached that place yet. We can

(11:03):
find out, we can find out who's gonna eat who
You're gonna eat me? Guys the same size, Well, they're
not the short straw you have to kill him. Is
there a hierarchy here? Because you got the long straws?
And wait and you brought the straws the straws out,
but hey, you chose. There's another example that happened more recently,

(11:25):
and listeners, this may have occurred in your lifetime. This
may sound familiar to you. There was a plane crash
in nineteen seventy two of forty two people included a
Uruguayan rugby team, which is what probably the reason you
may have heard of this before it got the story
of this event got turned into a movie called Alive.

(11:48):
Also a book. Uh, there are several places where we
can read about this and a sweet Pearl jam song.
Yeah kidding, I don't note there. So keep in mind
it's minus thirty degrees fahrenheit out there. That's super cold. Um. Now,
you've got a lot of people who didn't make it
through the initial crash. Their bodies are there. Um, you

(12:10):
don't have much to eat because you know, they had
some supplies, some wine and chocolate. It was on the plane,
but it was very limited. There was also an avalanche
that they had to deal with and ended up killing
eight more of the surviving people that were killed. Half
of the survivors, eight of the sixteen. The bodies of
some of the people who were here that are frozen.

(12:30):
Or do we die? Do we all just decided to die.
That's a tough choice to make, and they made it,
and they were ultimately rescued. Yes, they were driven to
desperation after seventy to seventy two days, and they took
a sort of a Hail Mary ten day trip to

(12:51):
find some sort of civilization and they ran into a
Chilean herder I believe who brought them back uh, kind
of cannibalism is uh, you know, it's frightening, and we
Drew straws ingest, but we're the three of us on
a boat and in desperate circumstances, who knows what would occur.

(13:15):
And Matt, I think you're right. It is. It is
a tough decision, and I don't mean to denigrate it
at all, but also it's a decision that I feel
like I know most people. I I know what most
people would decide. Very very few people, including you vegetarians

(13:36):
in the audience, would slowly starved to death. And the
worst part about this kind of cannibalism is that it
encounters rabbit starvation. Rabbit starvation is something that happens when
someone's diet is only lean meat. So when people are
driven to cannibalism in this sort of situation, the person
that they're consuming unless they were already dead. If everybody

(13:59):
was starving and they just ate the first one who
expired from starvation or dehydration, then the food that they
are eating from that body is not nutritious enough to
sustain them. There's no fat, so they will continue eating
while they are starving because their body has enough lean
meat what it needs is some sort of nutrition. So

(14:23):
the worst part of this sort of cannibalism, unfortunately, is
that it doesn't help, and that is rabbit R A
B B I T starvation. Yes, so we talked about
the we talked about the Code of the Sea, and
talked about survival cannibalism in small groups. But it has

(14:46):
happened in large scale events as well. Most notably, for
history buffs the Siege of Leningrad. Perhaps this was a
nearly three year siege. Eight hundred and seventy two days.
A million people died easily from various circumstances, right from war,

(15:10):
from hardship, from being abducted, butchered and eaten. The population
was slowly starving with no way to replenish the food supply.
Gangs of starving people roamed the street like feral dogs.
The city had to dedicate an entire unit of its
dwindling law enforcement justified cannibalism, and people were arrested. Hundreds

(15:34):
of people. Yeah, as a matter of fact, two hundred
and sixty people were arrested for cannibalism and the parents
kept their children inside at night for fear that they
would be abducted. Absolutely No, This shows us that people
will eat one another, not just in small, isolated groups,
but entire cities can be driven to cannibalism under the

(15:55):
right circumstances. If this seems strange to ladies and gentlemen,
look around. Is there anyone in the room with you?
Are you outside? Is there anyone walking by? If there's
no one near you, think about the closest person. Think
about what would happen the next time you're trapped in
an elevator, right, think about what would happen the next
time you're stranded somewhere. How long would it take you?

(16:19):
What choice would you make? And we will ponder that
question and others when we return from a quick sponsor break. So,

(16:40):
our second type of cannibalism is what's called learned cannibalism,
essentially a socially reinforced form of form of eating human flesh.
And there are two types of this. Yeah, there is
endo cannibalism, and that's the one that occurs with in
the group, the social group in which you exist. And

(17:04):
there are several examples of this. Most of the examples
we have are tribes, tribes in Indonesia and New Guinea Um.
Several other places like that. This is what you might
describe as ritualistic cannibalism. Bran for sure. So like the
Wari tribe practices Indo cannibalism in the in the form
of UH mortuary cannibalism. UH. They're also known as the

(17:29):
Paca Nova and they are in Brazil, and so this
sort of cannibalism occurs when they So what happens is
when a when a valued member of the society dies,
the closest relatives hug embraced the deceased person. They leave
the body for three days approximately, and then they send

(17:50):
out messengers. So in the time between the death and
the actual funeral, it's an average of three days. But
that's not a hard and fast rule. And course this
is in the Amazon, so decomposition sets in very quickly.
It is a hungry, hungry environment. And once they arrive,

(18:11):
once all the relatives arrive, they build a fire. They
removed the visceral organs, They roast the body and then
they have a tendant. Relatives consume the flesh to a
suage the family's grief because what what they thought. What
they think thought of this is that by ingesting this corpse,

(18:35):
the dead person is living on in some way in
the body of their family over and transferring the soul
rather than being abandoned to wander the forest alone as
a spirit. So it's considered an act of compassion rather
than an act of desperation, and in its own way,
you know, the reasoning behind that is beautiful. And then

(18:59):
there is the four a tribe in Papua New Guinea,
which you have probably heard of if you have looked
into cannibalism. So upon the death of a member of
this community, the women in the family, the maternal kin,
dismember the corpse, removed the arms and feet, stripped, the limbs,
removed the brain, cut open the chest and take out

(19:19):
the organs. This is where um, this is where you
hear about kuru, right, I've heard of this, yes, So
kuru is this infection you can get from consuming a
human brain? Yeah, from the like um, like mad cow. Yeah.
And so this, uh. The thing is that people who

(19:44):
died of puru there was a bit of a positive
feedback loop because those people would die um quickly, right,
and they would have still have a layer of fat
on them that resembled fatty pork, So they would be
choice by and this this produced um, you know, has
produced massive complications. There's also an X Files episode about

(20:06):
people transmitting Guru to each other. Uh. And then there's
another tribe in Indonesian New Guinea. Yeah, this is the
Kori tribe and it the practices of the Korai tribe
in the past. That's what we're talking about here. It
appears that most of cannibalism within this tribe has ceased. Um.

(20:28):
But in the past, when a member of the tribe
died for some less than obvious reason, let's say a disease,
something internal that you couldn't see. They didn't fall out
of a tree, or you know, die in battle or
get attacked by an animal. If this occurs, then it
was believed that their death was caused by a kakua
or a witch man from the nether world, which is

(20:50):
pretty intense. I think that's also a pokemon akakua. I
did not know that, really. Listeners correct me if I'm wrong.
But these kakula were only believed to be able to
inhabit the bodies of a male another male, and when
they did inhabit that body, they magically ate the interior

(21:12):
of the human So in order to enact revenge on
this which man that is eating the insides the core.
I believed they had to eat the body of the
person who died. And you know, there's this whole list
here of how they prepared the meat, which I kind
of don't even want to get into. But they basically
steamed the body and chopped it up in order to

(21:34):
consume all the parts. And we have a description here
from an interview that Vice conducted with someone who spent
some time with this tribe that discusses exactly how they
prepared the human meat. Just for the record, the pokemon
is a cocuna. But here's the quote. They steam everything
with an oven made from leaves and rocks. They treat

(21:56):
it like they with the flesh of a pig. They
cut off the legs separately and wrap them in banana leaves.
They cut off the head and that goes to the
person who found the cakua. They cut off the right
arm and the right ribs as one piece and the
left as another. Yat everything except for the hair, nails
and the penis. Children under thirteen are not allowed to

(22:17):
eat this flesh. They believe that eating the cakua is
very dangerous, that their evil spirits all around, and the
children are vulnerable. And again this is these are practices
that occurred in the past. It's thought that now these
practices are discussed as a way of getting people to
come and visit the tribes. Um. But you know that

(22:40):
is unconfirmed currently. There's another one that's perhaps the oldest
practice of cannibalism, which is exo cannibalism eating a member
of another family, group, community, tribe, culture, at, etcetera. For instance,
the Mienmen in Papua New Guinea again were well known
for practicing this. Uh. They would raid neighboring villages. When

(23:04):
an anthropologist questioned members of this community why they carried
off dead at Bullman's, an adjacent community, Uh, they said
they considered them good meat to this tribe. The Meamens
the at Ballman's, who existed outside their community weren't people.
They were game. They were there to be hunted, the

(23:27):
same way that the Morlocks hunted the Eloy in the
Time Machine by Wells, or the way Gary Busey hunted
Iced Tea in Most Dangerous, Most Dangerous Game. Well, that
wasn't what was going on. The movie was just called
it was called Surviving the game. Yeah, hunting a person, though,
is often referred to as the most dangerous game. There's
another example. There was a former secret society and Sierra Leone,

(23:49):
calling themselves the Leopard Society. They would kill people, they
would attack them with claw like weapons, and uh, they
would take the human blood and fat of killed members
of other groups and they would mix it into a
potion called borfina was consumed to attract wealth and power,
similar to a few of those isolated incidents amongst Narco religions. Yeah,

(24:17):
and uh, you know, of course, while we're in that
part of the world, while we're in South America, let's
let's look at the Azdec culture of Mexico and Central
America just a little ways north right. Uh, there were
large scale human sacrifices to appease the gods, to uh

(24:40):
attend the god's needs in hopes of gaining greater glory,
of valuable harvest and so on. Ritualistic sacrifice and harvesting
is something that we can examine in a later podcast.
But there was also cannibalism that occurred. And this is
not necessarily something from the bygone days of civilizations that

(25:03):
have fallen. In World War two, when some of our ancestors. Right,
we're traveling across the world waging war. When some of
our listeners today might have been traveling in one part
of a war effort or another. Cannibalism occurred, especially in
the Pacific theater. And this is um, this is recent,

(25:28):
the horrific we see that wartime cannibalism is almost its
own thing, you know it. It can occur in survival
situations like the Siege of Leningrad, but we've categorized it
in a different way when there is an attack in
military force as engaging cannibalism, not because it needs to,

(25:51):
not because it is looking for nutrition, but because of
the madness of war. Yeah, it's called battle rage. In
a couple of places, um, specifically with Iroquois and Fiji cultures.
It's it's one of these awful things where people, if

(26:14):
they were captured, they would be mutilated, like in front
of a crowd. Sometimes sometimes cut up and eaten in
front of a crowd. Like people talking about taking suit
like souvenirs or trophies where someone will have like a
necklace with you know, severed ears on them or something
like that. You know. And while we're talking about this, stuff,
this darker stuff. Let's move to pathological cannibalism, which is

(26:40):
the maybe one of the It's difficult to make a
hierarchy for this, so I wan't attempt it. But pathological cannibalism,
pathological cannibalism is what mentally disturbed individuals will do. And
for instance, well, let's name the elephant in the room.
We're talking about serial killers, were talking about Albert Fish,

(27:01):
We're talking about Jeffrey Dahmer, who famously practiced cannibalism on
some of his victims. Uh. And I believe he tried
to conduct rapid nation operations in order to create undead
uh slaves. Well, yes, and this, this is the reason

(27:26):
it's pathological is because this is not a survival situation.
This is not a socially reinforced thing or a ritual
or funereal. Right, you know, this is a person who
is disturbed, acting out on their own inner demons, right,

(27:49):
acting out on the orders of their own inner demons.
And then there's another case here, of course, that some
of us may remember from two thousand and one, which
we have quote here from an advertisement very built men
who would like to be eaten by me. This was

(28:11):
an ad taken out by a guy named Arman Males
m E I W E s uh. He was looking
for someone to consentually be consumed. He found a willing
partner and forte year old burned urgan brands. This was
a little bit different. It's still pathological cannibalism, but but

(28:33):
it was a consenting partner. So over the next over
the next few months, after they met in the first
eight pieces of this guy uh genitalia. Um. After they
the Genitalia, Arman put the guy in a bath, was bleeding,

(28:59):
slitters throat, butchered in and over the next few months
eight uh about forty five pounds of his dead body.
So it wasn't really a crime, but it does lead
us to or in terms of in legal terms in
German courts, this wasn't Who would make a law for that?

(29:20):
Who saw that coming? No one? That's a Shamalan move
for sure. This leads us to another form of cannibalism,
which would be auto cannibalism. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, do
any of you bite your nails? Do any of you,
uh list, We're continuing to be a little crass engross
with this. Does anyone pick their nose, or eat their

(29:42):
boogers or chew on the edge of their fingers or
their hair. If sir, you are committing an active auto cannibalism.
This makes me think of a story, UM, from I
believe a Skelton Crew collection of Stephen King short stories
called Survivor type where a doctor UM find himself stranded
alone on a desert island and has his medical bag

(30:05):
and anesthesia and systematically, methodically anesthetizes different parts of his
body and um, you know, cuts them off and eats
them until he has no limbs left. WHOA, that's that's
great Stephen King. Thanks, thanks for putting that in my head.
And then there's what in my opinion, and I want

(30:26):
to hear what you think, folks. In my opinion, the
most horrific form of cannibalism is forced auto cannibalism, forcing
someone to eat themselves like that scene in Hannibal. Yes,
all right, we're entering a little bit of spoiler territory here.
So if anyone hasn't seen the movie Hannibal from what
ten years ago, um years fast forward about a minute

(30:48):
and a half. There's a scene in this film where
UM Anthony Hopkins character hannibal lector Um has isn't it
has a brain open? Yeah, skulls open. Raliotis character who's
sort of his nemesis in the movie Um. He abducts him,
lobotomizes him and cuts out little parts of his brain

(31:11):
and fries it up in a pan and then feeds
it to him, And stuff like this happens in the
real world. I want to warn you before we continue, folks,
that this may not be a pleasant story, So if
you would rather not hear it, this is your chance
to turn back. We'll keep it short. This really happened,
and it's important not to forget that these things occur.

(31:35):
In Jackson County, Florida, a group around two thousand white
Southerners intended to sacrifice a man named Claude Neil, an
innocent black man. They sent invitations about this, they announced
it in local newspapers. They castrated him, and they forced

(31:57):
him to eat his own testicles, and then they torture,
further mutilated him, cut off other parts of his body,
some saved as mementos, similar to wartime cannibalism, skinned him
and burned him. This is what the human species is
capable of. Forest auto cannibalism is, in my opinion, the

(32:22):
most insane and disturbing part of of this entire thing.
And then, as a palate cleanser, let's go right to
one another one that a lot of people don't think
about newly discovered auto cannibals. Matt and I among you
nail biters, Right, there's another. There's another thing. And as

(32:44):
symbolic cannibalism, you attend a Christian mass Body of Christ,
Body of Christ. Yeah, this is something I can't remember
if we've talked about on the show before, but it
was a new revelation for me, and I guess just
because I grew up in such a Christian centric environment
that I never thought twice about that ritual. Um. You know,

(33:07):
it is symbolic. Of course, you're not actually eating blood
or body of anything. But still, even though it's symbolic, now,
some sects of Christianity do believe that it is the
actual body of Christ once it is transubstantiation. Yeah, I mean,

(33:27):
it's mind blowing when you really think about it. Sure,
from an outsider perspective, it's it's got to sound, you know,
like cannibalism, and it just seems it's it's so strange
how things can normalize for people, you know what I mean. Sure,
it's like if we think back to individuals in a
human sacrifice oriented culture, then they would say, well, we

(33:51):
have to do this. Well, that's sort of the nature
of ritual, isn't it, Where you normalize the abnormal and
it becomes of course, we do that, that's just what
we do. We've always always done that. We've always been
at war with East Asia or the Middle East or remember.
So here's the here's the crazy part. This is a
brief check in because we're running out of time today

(34:12):
and we'll have to come back next week. Cannibalism occurs
in modern context. It occurs in West Africa, it occurs
in India, it occurs in Papua New Guinea. It occurred
in North Korea during the famine of the nineteen nineties.
Cannibalism is much much closer then you may think. It

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is not just some old unfortunate happenstance with shipwrecks. It's
not just something that an isolated, disturbed individual would do
to innocent people. In times of crisis, People, no matter
how well you know them, may change, and ultimately the

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human goal, the thing we are built to do is
to survive by any means necessary. Not all of the
these forms of cannibalism that exists in the modern age
are necessarily bad or criminal. Right. There is ritualistic, spiritual cannibalism, right,
the propitiation of the dead in in other terms. For example,

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in India, there's the a Gory tribe, and these are
cannibal monks. They feast on human flesh, they drink from skulls,
They live amongst the dead. But they are not um.
They're not going out and killing people. They will chew
the heads off live animals. They meditate on top of cadavers.

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They live with death, you know what I mean. But
this is not necessarily criminal. Another thing that we see
is the allegations of cannibalism amongst the elite. There are
a lot of allegations of cannibalism among the elites, but
there is not I haven't found anything that we can substantiate,
something that we can come forward and say, yes, absolutely,

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this is happening. Um. There are gastions about Bohemian Grove
that you've probably read, where they are allegedly human sacrifices.
Then cremation of care through the cremation of care where
there's a body, you know, it's believed to be just
a prop effigy and effigy, yes, but you know there

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are people who think otherwise. Who knows, I've never been there.
The only people I know have been there are presidents
and you know, some of the elites and Alex Jones.
So we are going to end it here today, ladies
and gentlemen, on a question, would you eat someone's to survive?

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Do you have the will power to let yourself slowly
starved to death rather than consume human flesh? How prevalent
do you feel cannibalism is, and what do you think
about the spiritual nature of consuming human body parts? Yeah?
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