Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Instances of Cannibalism

By: Sealie

Sealie — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:09:00 +0000

What about Gormagon??? Sure he was fake, but a silver skeleton with the bones slowly being replaced with real bones… thats just awesome.

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:43:00 +0000

Yes, you can get Cannibal the Musical from Amazon…..just bought it a couple weeks ago.

I highly reccommend.

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:26:00 +0000

What about Armin Miewes, the German who posted online ads in search of a victim willing to be killed and eaten? He actually got a volunteer, who was subsequently butchered.

By: taylor

taylor — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:57:00 +0000

My father saw/heard one of the players (probably the guy that wrote the book) from the “Alive” story speak in a a seminar a few years ago. Aside from being an incredible story of people facing incredible odds, I was struck by the following:

One of the men who hiked down the mountain and found the cow and eventually its owner, set that farmer up for life, providing him, his children, and now grandchildren with college educations, a mansion to live in, and basically anything else they could want or need.

Granted, most of us would probably do the same for anyone who rescued us from such trying circumstances, but it’s a nice story and the book is fabulous. I highly recommend.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:25:00 +0000

You sort of forgot Ed gein. He admitted to eating some of the body parts that he dug up. You also forgot Jeffrey Dahmer. He routinely ate parts of his lovers/victims. One of the joke around here was that when his mother told him she didn’t like his friends, Dahmer told her to leave them on her plate.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:09:00 +0000

The Fore people of Papua New Guinea would eat the brains of the deceased as a funeral rite to transfer the life force. This was a major means of transmitting the prion that causes Kuru – aka Mad Human Disease.

And I’ll third the recommendation of Cannibal: The Musical.

I know far too much about cannibalism.

By: Stacy Conradt

Stacy Conradt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:57:00 +0000

@kate – I didn’t even think about that. That’s too funny. I apologize if I ruined your lunch :) My pregnant friend e-mailed this afternoon and said, “Dude, you know I read your Quick 10 when I’m eating my afternoon snack right?” Heh.

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:56:00 +0000

I had a batty History of Anthropology teacher who swears that no person has ever eaten antother person. No matter how many examples we gave her, she was sure it didn’t happen – even though we told her about the man in Germany who filmed himself eating his victim (the victim ate some of himself too…intentionally. Weird fetish.)

She was insane.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:39:00 +0000

@Bryan: The first thing I thought of when I saw the article title was I wonder if they’ll mention Cannibal! The Musical.

This movie is not hard to find as long as you know where to look. I’d bet this movie is even on amazon.com by now. If not you can definitely get it from the TROMA website.

By: Hailey

Hailey — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:19:00 +0000

Seconding the recommendation of “In The Heart of the Sea” as a great book. Owen Coffin was the nephew of the captain, who also had to partake when the time came for eating him. Unsurprisingly, his sister was not happy when he came back home.