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What do you think of this? I guess cannibalism can be found in every continent's history at some point.
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From creating candles made of human fat in the 1880s, to drinking blood at the scaffold, or making remedies out of crushed skull powder, many Europeans had no moral or ethical concerns about eating, drinking or otherwise using the bodies of dead people.
Going back a little further in time, even King Charles II of England sipped 'The King’s Drops', a powder mix of human skull with alcohol.
A person taking a medicine made of powdered human skull would be revolted by someone who live in a remote hut and strangled travelers to eat their flesh.
Likewise, people who have been forced to consume human flesh for survival (think the Donner party) did not receive the same social stigma as people who killed and ate people to satiate a deviant lust.
Christians "normalized" the pseudo-metaphorical act (depending on the rhetoric of what actually happens to the substance in the mouth) of consuming the blood and body of the host, Communion, while considering literal cannibalism taboo.
Ritual cannibalism is different from psychopathic cannibalism. In European pre-history there is some evidence for cannibalism, but whether this evidence points to ritual, psychopathic, or survival cannibaism is hard to detect from the context in hich the evidence is found.
According to this the earliest known example of cannibalism is found in Europe.
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Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, one of the co-directors of the Atapuerca project, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, said: "It is the first well-documented case of cannibalism in the history of humanity."
Ritual cannibalism is different from psychopathic cannibalism.
Ritual cannibalism may represent a lot of the cannibalism that's practiced by certain cultures. I've read of cultures that will eat certain body parts or organs because they believe it will give them "powers".
Have you ever read about Boone Helm ?
He was a gunfighter/serial killer in the old west. He would kill his traveling companions and take body parts off them to snack on during long journeys. I know if I was riding the trail with him and I heard his stomach growl I would dig my spurs into my horse and ride like the wind.
Yes but none of this is the same as killing an butchering living people for meat like in Africa:
Earlier, while Battuta was still at the capital, a group of African cannibals and their leader came to see sultan Mansa Suleiman. They wore large metal rings in their ears and wore silver mantles. they came from a region that possessed a gold mine, so the sultan was gracious to them, and gave them a slave woman as a hospitality gift. The cannibals killed and ate her, then smeared her blood on themselves and went to thank the sultan. As an aside, Battuta reported that he heard the tastiest meat came from the palms and the breasts.
Yes but none of this is the same as killing an butchering living people for meat like in Africa:
Earlier, while Battuta was still at the capital, a group of African cannibals and their leader came to see sultan Mansa Suleiman. They wore large metal rings in their ears and wore silver mantles. they came from a region that possessed a gold mine, so the sultan was gracious to them, and gave them a slave woman as a hospitality gift. The cannibals killed and ate her, then smeared her blood on themselves and went to thank the sultan. As an aside, Battuta reported that he heard the tastiest meat came from the palms and the breasts.
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