10. The Donner Party



The Donner Party was a group of eighty-seven American pioneers who, during their trip across America, became trapped by snow. By the time help arrived to rescue them, only forty-eight of the original eighty-seven remained, leading to numerous questions about exactly what had happened.

It’s now commonly accepted that some members of the Donner party, driven to desperation by intense hunger, eventually resorted to consuming those who’d already died. In interviews directly following their relief, cannibalism was mentioned several times. But for some reason, these accounts were later denied—which prompted archeologists to go and dig up the tooth-marked bones of the bodies.

9.Regina v. Dudley and Stephens

The case of Dudley and Stephens is a landmark British case from 1884, still studied today as an example of common law and the legal defense of “necessity.”

Basically, four sailors were stranded at sea without food or water. Dudley and Stephens proposed that, in order for some of them to survive, someone needed to be sacrificed for the greater good. When no one stepped forward they murdered their cabin boy (who was admittedly already in a coma) and ate him instead. When rescue arrived, the men argued that they committed the murder to stave off their hunger. The courts didn’t agree, and sentenced them to hanging. When they realized that this seemed a little harsh—since, after all, the men had merely robbed a seventeen-year-old of his life—they revised to sentence to six months in jail.

8.The Crusades

The Crusades cut across Asia and left thousands of dead in their wake. But such huge armies couldn’t fuel themselves on God’s love alone—and so when supplies began to run low, both sides thought nothing of eating the flesh of those they’d just slain.

Though the cannibalism was most likely prompted by necessity, it’s also noted that it served to demotivate their enemy.

7. The Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty, in Chinese history had one curious aspect: Revenge cannibalism.

“Revenge cannibalism” was a real thing; annoyed townspeople would sometimes beat a corrupt official to death and eat his flesh. It also wasn’t uncommon for criminals to be punished by having their heart pulled out, purely so that an overseeing official could eat a small piece of it.

6. Leningrad

The siege of Leningrad tested the limits of human hunger. Food was so scarce that citizens would peel wallpaper from walls, in order to scrape off and eat the glue holding it in place.

With virtually no food remaining anywhere in the city, cannibalism didn’t just become an option; it became a way of life. It ran so rampant that the police had to set up a task force to combat it, and parents wouldn’t let children leave the house due to their fear that people would kill and eat them. Half-eaten bodies actually littered the streets.

5.The Japanese in WWII

While Soviet citizens were being forced to eat their fellow men in Leningrad, Japanese soldiers the world over were doing essentially the same thing. The only difference was that they didn’t always do it merely because they were hungry.

Victims (invariably prisoners of war) were coldly killed, and their bodies then completely stripped of all consumable flesh (usually leaving only their hands and feet untouched). But this wasn’t always the case; some unlucky victims had the meat ripped from their arms and legs while they were still alive, after which they’d be thrown into pits to die. But here’s the worst part: some Japanese soldiers and officers didn’t carry out this act due to hunger-induced desperation—they did it just to make a point. The point presumably being that they were pure evil.

4.The Ukrainian Famine of 1932

This famine is believed to have been almost entirely man-made. The year 1932 saw virtually all food produced by Ukrainian farmers being forcefully taken by the USSR, leaving millions without sustenance—the vast percentage of whom simply died of hunger.

One largely unreported fact was just how many Ukrainian citizens resorted to cannibalism. A certain story tells us of a man who murdered his wife and calmly cooked her body in a soup, while others tell of children and babies who were eaten alive by their starving families—all of which took place while the smiling, jovial face of Joseph Stalin was being beamed around the entire world.

3.The Chinese Famine of 1959

Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” pretty much messed up half of China, since it left millions of people in the country without food. Which—as you’ll know if you’ve been reading the other entries on this list—is never a good thing.

As detailed in the book Hungry Ghosts, for some people the hunger was simply too much too bear, and cannibalism became their only choice. It wasn’t long before human flesh became a market staple, and there were even stories being thrown around of parents swapping their children with other people. Why? So that they wouldn’t be burdened with the sin of eating their own child. They’d instead be condemning them to certain death, and murdering someone else’s child—which must have been much easier on their conscience.

2.St. Francis Raid

The village of St Francis, Canada, was raided in the latter half of 1759 during the French and Indian War. Though not a commonly-known detail of history, the raid should be so—simply due to the fact that Robert Rogers and his men carried out one of the most viciously brutal raids in history.

Robert Rogers and his rabid raiders are said to have ransacked the village, before scalping and killing any prisoners they took. But all that killing took its toll on the Rogers’ men, and their intense hunger caused them to feast on the raw flesh of the recently killed. After the battle, one Ranger actually commented that after what they’d done, he and his fellow rangers, “hardly deserved the name of human beings.”

1.The Siege of Ma’arra and Antioch

Starving Christian troops, driven mad by hunger during the siege, would reportedly cut off pieces of their slain opponents’ buttocks before frying them. Sometimes, in their haste to literally eat their enemy’s ass, they would consume undercooked meat and would become violently ill. Other tales speculate that the Crusaders boiled adults alive and even roasted children on spits—because when God’s on your side, you can do anything you want without consequence, apparently.


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Ehen na wa o,this article just ruined my appetite

Thank God i don't fancy meat, i feel like vomiting right now!

See what hunger can cause!

~vicky~:
i am afraid if such people really exist. how can a person continue to take up such acts and become a cannibal?? moreover how can he eat another human being yikes!!

Sick people that secretely eat human flesh exist even in this day and age. You'd be surprised at the number twisted individuals that are currently walking free. These lunatics are experts at hiding their mental illness behind a mask of normalcy so other people see them and don't suspect anything.

~vicky~:
i am afraid if such people really exist. how can a person continue to take up such acts and become a cannibal?? moreover how can he eat another human being yikes!!

Some tribes in papua new guinea still eat human flesh.
They dont fancy americans because of their excess fat.they even said that they prefer Japanese people because they are low in sodium.

True talk

^say waaat , I bet they won't fancy Nigerians either,as sufferhead go don add a tinge of bitterness to our flesh,and d meat go strong die

tjskii: ^say waaat , I bet they won't fancy Nigerians either,as sufferhead go don add a tinge of bitterness to our flesh,and d meat go strong die

Try them and see, i believe you're as fresh as any meat they seek. too bad you'd be a waste, abeg before going, let me see you first o, you can't just end up in the pot like that na.

tjskii:

tjskii: ^say waaat , I bet they won't fancy Nigerians either,as sufferhead go don add a tinge of bitterness to our flesh,and d meat go strong die

LWKMD

tjskii: ^say waaat , I bet they won't fancy Nigerians either,as sufferhead go don add a tinge of bitterness to our flesh,and d meat go strong die

[size=32pt] AND CHRISTIANS ACCUSE US PAGANS OF CANNIBALISM! [/size]

PAGAN 9JA:
AND CHRISTIANS ACCUSE US PAGANS OF CANNIBALISM!

Abeg carry your overzealous paganism go one corner. Cannibalism is not part of Christianity, it is not in the Bible.

♚ƒԐLis-c∆tus:


Abeg carry your overzealous paganism go one corner. Cannibalism is not part of Christianity, it is not in the Bible.

Actually it is in the bible, do you remember the story of two women who killed and eat one of their babies,when it was time for the other to bring hers forward to be eaten, she refused and the case was brought to the ruler?

When hunger strikes, morality is thrown to the bush.

honeric01:
Actually it is in the bible, do you remember the story of two women who killed and eat one of their babies,when it was time for the other to bring hers forward to be eaten, she refused and the case was brought to the ruler?

That is not what I meant when I said it is not in the Bible.

♚ƒԐLis-c∆tus:


That is not what I meant when I said it is not in the Bible.

Huh? what then do you mean?

honeric01:

Huh? what then do you mean?

I meant it is not a requirement/there is no directive to do it or anything.

♚ƒԐLis-c∆tus:


Abeg carry your overzealous paganism go one corner. Cannibalism is not part of Christianity, it is not in the Bible.

cannibalism is the basic tenet of the bible.

jesus himself propagated cannibalism.

John 6:56 : He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

PAGAN 9JA:


cannibalism is the basic tenet of the bible.

jesus himself propagated cannibalism.

John 6:56 : He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

lol, this is funny, that statement was a figurative expression, you're to take it literally. Lol you don't understand the bible @ all.

PAGAN 9JA:

cannibalism is the basic tenet of the bible.
jesus himself propagated cannibalism.
John 6:56 : He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

Stop twisting Bible verses to make Christianity look bad.
You know very well that Jesus was not asking Christians to eat his ACTUAL flesh, it was just figurative.
Be a good pagan and don't cause trouble.
Ifa is watching you.

Ughhhhhhh! I wish I didnt read this article.

Ewww! But front page 2 days after easter please! Despite grotesque it throws some light on history generally!

I would rather go hungry than eat human flesh.

Neccesity is the mother of invention. When hunger wire person, person go think well and invent cannibalism sharp sharp.