SC - Re: "cruel food" (Long)

[Laura C Minnick]

Ana,
	Interesting thread on cannibalism- I just wanted to note that for
much of the Western European Middle Ages, various writings and accounts of
travels and encounters with non-European peoples, the farther afield you
get, the more likely you are to run into cannibals. Tribes on the
outskirts of Christendom, as well as any variety of heretics, are
frequently accused of eating human flesh, particularly for rituals. The
'monstrous races', such as the Blemmy (the guys with no heads and their
aces on their chests or between their shoulder blades), and the
Anthrophagi (a sort-of dog-human that walks on all fours and eats humans).
If it is only marginally human, or 'other', it is probably cannibal, to
the medieval mind...

'Lainie 
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Laura C. Minnick
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'A Vaillans Coeurs Riens Impossible'
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731




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