#Europeans ate mummies as medicine

[newagevictorianorphan]

when somebody brings up cannibalism/human sacrifice in mesoamerican civilizations as a negative point to prove that ‘mesoamerica was barbaric and cruel’ i like to bring up the fact that europeans crushed and ate mummies as medicine back in the day

#mesoamerica #latin america #south america #also human sacrifices and cannibalism were often (if not only) for religious purposes #they weren’t just leaving ppl on mountains bc they felt like it dipshit #but maybe we should bring that practice back. specifically so we can sacrifice YOU

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry eating mummies question

so I read an academic article NOT in the field of Egyptology (european history) years ago that I cannot find anymore that discussed how European fascination with/desire for mummies is the only reason they're rare today. I referenced this in a post i rbed from you a while ago and didn’t get an eating mummies correction, so I think that bit was accurate. they were common before european consumption in the consumer sense.

now TO BE CLEAR I fully thought it was because they ate them into rarity. and now i’m all jumbled up and don’t really know what else they would have done with them unless part of the correction is “they did not cook and eat mummies for dinner, it was a medicinal additive. no one was munching on a preserved human arm like a chicken leg. more like a powder supplement.”

*mentally cries*

Mummies aren't rare. They never have been. I've no idea where the 'they've eaten them to rarity' has come from, but we have a lot of mummies. Many were destroyed in antiquity by tomb robbers literally setting fire to them to get the gold and jewels off them (see: P.Leopold II Amherst papyrus), so we know the Egyptians themselves were not above destroying them. I mean we've found over 400 mummies in the last year and a half and those are just the ones at Saqqara. They're really really not rare.

They used cat mummies for a lot of things like...fire kindling and medicine. A lot of the time when they say 'mummies' they're missing out the 'cat' part, because we have a lot of those. So many. They're much easier to carry around as Lord McFuckwad VI on your jolly holiday to the 'exotic' than a whole ass human. Plus cats! Novelty!

Anyway, I have explained this in the past a lot so I'm going to post this link again which has further links to actual stuff on corpse medicine (for which it was the bitumen they were after aka 'mummiya' not the corpse itself):

Even then, if you read the sources, most of the mummies they did eat were a) in the Middle Ages and b) fake as shit because the Egyptians found that easier to do than actually dig a mummy up (probably leading to the 'they're rare we can't find them so I can charge you a lot of money for it' deal)

[criminol]

Cannibalism

Cannibalism, also known as anthropophagy, is the eating of human flesh by humans. The word cannibal comes from the Spanish name (Caríbales, or Caníbales) for the Carib, a tribe known for cannibalism.

Eating another human, particularly the brain can cause kuru- a nervous system disease that begins with trembling and ends in death. Kuru is also sometimes known as the laughing sickness due to sufferers bursting into laughter as a symptom of the disease.

Cannibalism has featured in the myths and legends of cultures around the world, examples include the witch in European fairy tale ‘Hansel and Gretel, Baba Yaga a figure in Slavic mythology and the Wechuge a demonic creature in Native American folklore.

Evidence for cannibalism can be argued to have been found over 600,000 years ago with findings of human bones which have had the flesh removed by other humans.

A form of cannibalism was the consumption of body parts for alleged medicinal benefits such as curing disease, though it has been observed around the world, this practice was at its height in 17th century Europe where human fat was sold as a balm to remedy broken bones. Egyptian mummies were sold as pharmaceuticals in powder form. A modern-day health fad in which parents eat their placenta after giving birth has been referred to cannibalism by some, though others argue as the placenta came from the person who gave birth it is not cannibalism, which usually involves eating another person’s flesh.

Perhaps one of the most notorious modern day examples of cannibalism is serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer was arrested in 1999 for murdering 17 young men. Dahmer’s apartment contained human hearts, a human torso, a portion of arm muscle and a bag of human organs. He stated had planned to eat all of these parts.

Serial killer Albert Fish was sexually aroused by cannibalism and cooked and ate at least two children, claiming that it took him 9 days to eat one of his victim’s bodies.

In 2001, Armin Meiwes killed and ate parts of Bernd Jürgen Brandis who bizarrely had consented to being eaten when the two met online.

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[eric-sadahire]

I hate the fact that the sentence "mummies are rare because we ate them" is factual.

Since the 12th century, Europeans had been eating Egyptian mummies as medicine. In later centuries unmummified corpses were passed off as mummy medicine, and eventually some Europeans no longer cared whether the bodies they were ingesting had been mummified or not.

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[ethics-snom]

There used to be a lot of Egyptian mummys, but the Europeans ate most of them thinking they could cure diseases because they didn't know what petroleum products were and thought the Egyptian medicine was mummy. Thoughts on this?

cc .)) Interesting…

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[mitchipedia]

Search Engine: Why don't we eat people?

Today I learned that on Christopher Columbus’s second voyage to the Americas, he encountered a friendly tribe, the Arawaks—“fitted to be ruled and to be set to work to cultivate the land and do all else that may be necessary”—that warned him about another tribe, the Caribs, that were vicious and ate their enemies. We get the word “cannibalism” from their name. Queen Isabella of Spain said it was OK to treat the Caribs harshly because of their vile barbaric practices.

Search Engine podcast host PJ Vogt and his guest, writer Kelefa Sanneh, note that the Spaniards themselves were practicing something vile and barbaric—slavery. Finding slaves was a primary purpose of Columbus’s mission.

Also, the Europeans were big hypocrites because they themselves practiced cannibalism—grinding up mummies and consuming the powder as medicine. When mummies from Egypt became hard to procure, Europeans figured out how to accelerate mummification in fresh human corpses.

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[neechees]

Just wanna say, Europeans have no right to whine about anyone else doing human sacrifice considering public executions were done constantly throughout, and people would go because they believed stuff like "hanged man's blood can cure warts" and would fight over chunks of people, and all those Egyptian mummies they looted? they ATE most of them as "medicine"

Most of the shit they said about us must've just been projecting (& being racist obvi) like the Jamestown colonizers had been calling The Powhatan people scary savage cannibals, meanwhile they ate their own wives and kids cause they knew fuck all about agriculture, or how the British called us "wild" and "dirty", meanwhile they were dumping shit in the streets and poisoned their own rivers so badly that they couldn't drink from them or even wash with them, or the myth of the brutal savage Native men kidnapping & mistreating white women, meanwhile European nations were so misogynist to their wives that in cases they WERE taken by Natives, they literally didn't wanna leave, etc. Like European colonizers were the VERY LAST people who should've been calling ANYBODY the things they did and yet

And this stilll continues today with how historians or even the general populace treat Indigenous people or our cultures and histories etc. Thats why I brought up Vikings, because even though they raided & did horrendous shit & ALSO might've done human sacrifice, people still treat them like theyre super cool etc but don't give Native people the same treatment?

[duelistkingdom]

a kid in the class was reading about mummies and asked me some question about the Pharos. So I told him what I had learned from your blog about what the British did and he looked so horrified and sad. Granted he's about 10 but he seemed to be concerend and wanted to learn more. so thank you.

if you wanna know more about how the colonization of egypt extended to the dead here's a few more sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/news/the-europeans-that-ate-egyptian-mummies/

https://hauntedwalk.com/news/why-did-people-eat-mummies/

it should be noted that this was a broadly european practice (so the french, italians, and spanish aren't exempt) it's just that the practice is most strongly associated with british colonialism because as you know, the sun never sets on the british empire.

i should note "ate them" is a strong turn of phrase. the more ACCURATE way of putting it is that they were ground up and turned into medicines which were then ingested orally. it's just "ate them" is faster to say and essentially what happened.

[samiamrdr08-blog]

Insanely Creepy Facts About History They Never Taught In School A Thread:

𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵-𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.

Via: Wikipedia

You’ve probably heard of the Salem witch trials, but the hunt for witches goes back much further than that. One anthropologist has estimated that, in medieval times, as many as 600,000 “witches” lost their lives.

via: wikipedia

Animals were also regularly put on trial in the medieval ages—and given a death sentence.

𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿-𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀?

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During America’s Dust Bowl (in the early 1930s), sewing flour sacks into clothing became quite popular. So popular, in fact, that flour companies began selling flour in decorative bags intended for future repurposing into clothing.

𝗖𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁-𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘀.

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In the 19th century, before medical professionals had the tools to discern comas or paralysis from death, the fear of being buried alive was very real. Patented ‘safety coffins’ were invented so that mistakenly buried people could alert those above ground to their predicament.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆.

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During Pope Gregory IX’s term, he declared that cats were associated with devil worship, resulting in their mass extermination.

via: Wikipedia

Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿:

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Roman emperor Gaius (also known as Caligula) went out of his way to humiliate the Roman senate by making one of his favorite horses a senator.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻'𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

The Europeans’ arrival in the Americas caused the Native American population to drastically decline from approximately 12 million in 1500 to roughly 237,000 in 1900.

Cannibalism was a health fad once upon a time:

Wealthy Europeans in the 1500s and 1600s ate parts of corpses, believing them to have medicinal properties. Blood, power ground up from the human skull, and human fat were all used to cure various ailments.

Tomb raiders even desecrated Ancient Egyptian tombs to steal the remains of mummies, which the aforementioned wealthy Europeans proceeded to consume.

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[thatlittleegyptologist]

heyy!! i just watched a tiktok and the girl said the reason why mummies are rare is because the europeans ate almost all of them ....??? what is that about???

Pro tip for everyone: Stop getting history information on tiktok

So, first off, no. That’s a gross overstatement and misrepresentation of what happened in history. Mummies are not rare. Nor are they rare because the consumption of human remains (they were not always Egyptian, in fact some skulls were taken from early Irish burial sites, in other cases grave diggers would dig up bodies from cemeteries to sell them for the same purpose, or at executions people would collect the blood of the deceased to use in their own medicine. 

But yes, Mummies were used in medicine and paint both in Europe and America, mostly because the leading medical theories of the day said that human remains would aid with medical ailments, in particular fat, blood, and crushed human skull. 

Read more here.

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[francescamaxime]

#Repost @sonyareneetaylor with @get_repost ・・・ WHY #BUYBACKBLACKDEBT IS A SPIRITUAL INITIATIVE YOU SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN. History lives in you. MAJOR CWs here for a discussion of chattel slavery. fellow white ppl PLEASE use content warnings for every slide if you share to your story. CW cannibalism: I want to clarify also that Woodard argues white peoples obsession w stories about indigenous and Black "cannibals" more reflected white anxieties about their own behavior. there are clear records of frequent corpse eating theoughout early modern Europe, peaking in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially mummies and ground powder made from skulls. even Shakespeare's work mentions these practices. Europeans ate certain parts of corpses as "medicine." see noble's book "medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature" EDIT: meant to note in this post also that enslaved Black persons were made to beat and harm other enslaved Black people as well, another incredibly devastating trauma to add to the list. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCM8PT4gVQz/?igshid=12xo00xd5reic

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[kommunisti]

so today i learned from the podcast sawbones that medical cannibalism used to be a huge thing in europe, and white gentile europeans used to

eat mummies. the reason why there are so few mummies today is because we fucking ate them, for stuff like “uh, if you’re dizzy just eat some mummy flesh?”

so we ran out of mummies, and moved onto eating executed criminals, people who died from violence, and then got into graverobbing and murder

consuming blood was also very popular. it was considered to be most potent the fresher it was, so people would go to executions to pay the executioner for blood from the criminal being killed. or in the case of beheadings, people would stand close so the blood would splash on their skin

a notable case is one pope from vatican killing three young boys to extend his life through drinking their blood

even human fat was used as a medicine

this happened for hundreds of years, and was very popular, not a fringe phenomenon, until maybe even early 1900s

just thought that this is very important info considering how much cannibalism and blood libel have been used as a racist and antisemitic tools, even today, while this is never mentioned? there isn’t even a teeny tiny wikipedia article on it, and i never heard about it in media, history class, etc

before you go “sources???” just google cannibalism in europe

#txt #cannibalism / #gore / #blood / #child death / #death / #ask to tag #ok to rb

[snnartjournal]

Thematic Research

Conspiracy: The Queen is a Cannibal 

In 1973, cultural philosopher Hubert Humdinger published an article describing how she was “packed with more energy than the sun” He explained that she maintains her remarkable vibrancy through a dark habit “There is an immense amount of spiritual energy in human muscle,” he said

“She must eat human flesh to be so vivacious” Humdinger is not alone in his claims Financial analyst Jim Willie believes the Queen is a child-killing Satanist. His claims chime with several separate reports about dozens of schoolchildren going missing in Canada, each time the Queen makes a state visit. In Britain, William Combes claims to have witnessed the Queen kidnap ten children from his residential Catholic school in 1964

Another report comes from an anonymous soldier on duty in the Queen’s home, Windsor Castle, in the 1970s He says he found a secret freezer hidden in the castle kitchens When he opened it, he was confronted with the sickening sight of human body parts: arms, legs, and other various pieces. Conspiracy theorists say this is proof positive that Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip and perhaps the entire royal family, consume people in order to prolong their own existence beyond the natural limits of the human body Archaeological evidence suggests humans have practiced cannibalism for tens of thousands of years

 Lecturer Louise Noble, historian Dr Richard Sugg and anthropologist Beth Conklin have all researched how Europeans in both the Old and New Worlds ate human remains for medicinal purposes Known as corpse medicine, it was popular amongst British royalty, Queen Elizabeth’s predecessors William III and Queen Mary both took potions containing human skull; Charles II liked it so much he bought the recipe and mixed his own These remedies were made using grinded Egyptian mummies, body parts supplied by an illegal grave-robbing industry, and blood freshly drank from executed criminals Even Charles I’s blood was mopped up by the crowd when he was beheaded because his royal spirit was considered to have potent healing powers

The last recorded examples of corpse medicine are from the mid-1800s It is not known whether any of Queen Elizabeth’s grandparents partook of human flesh Conspiracy theorists say Elizabeth II literally gets away with murder and cannibalism because she is the Queen, Authorities simply won’t touch her, and the establishment goes to great lengths to cover up her evil tastes The cover-up must be particularly successful, because there is no evidence whatsoever to back up these claims

The report of the anonymous soldier who found the freezer full of body parts seems to have been invented by an equally anonymous visitor to an online forum Furthermore, Hubert Humdinger, the main source of the theory, may have never existed. None of his 367 purported writings survive, and there is no record of his life, let alone his 1973 article in which he accused the Queen of being a flesh-eater In fact, Humdinger seems to be the creation of a satire writer called Adam Michael Luebke Reports of Canadian and British schoolchildren being kidnapped by the Queen have no historical proof either, only unsupported witness statements.

Their stories also strain logic: it must be wondered whether Britain’s constitutional monarchy, which has robbed the head of state of most of their power, and surrounds the Queen with security and paparazzi, would allow her to go on unsupervised night raids in boarding schools If she were a cannibal, she would not face consequences under the law In the United Kingdom, it is not a crime to eat another person – in criminal cases where cannibalism has taken place, the charge is always murder The Queen would have to be caught for killing or kidnapping in order to be arrested Even then, she benefits from sovereign immunity. 

https://www.alltimeconspiracies.com/is-the-queen-of-england-a-cannibal/

[netunleashed-blog]

Otzi the Iceman's final meal was meat-rich and included fern leaves

http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=5285 Otzi the Iceman's final meal was meat-rich and included fern leaves - http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=5285 Scientists have discovered the last meal eaten by a frozen hunter who died 5,300 years ago in the Alps. The stomach contents of the world's oldest mummy, known as Otzi the Iceman, provide a glimpse of what ancient Europeans ate more than five millennia ago, researchers said.The stomach contained the fat and meat of a wild goat, red deer meat and wholewheat seeds, the journal Current Biology said.Traces of fern leaves and spores were also discovered in Otzi's stomach.Scientists say he may have swallowed the plant unintentionally or as a medicine for parasites that were previously found in his gut.Lead author and microbiologist at the Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy, Frank Maixner said: "It was very impressive. We could see chunks and pieces of food with the naked eye."Although researchers had previously examined Otzi's intestines, this was the first time they could look into his stomach because following his death, the organ moved upwards. Image: The discovery provides a glimpse of what people at at the time It was not until 2009, 18 years after his remains were discovered near the Italy-Austria border, that a radiologist detected it behind the rib cage.After defrosting the body, the team took samples and rehydrated them.Almost half the stomach contents were identified as the body fat of an ibex - a wild goat that still lives in the Alps.Mr Maixner said: "It's a harsh environment. They had to be prepared. They had to have food that gave them the necessary energy to survive."Albina Hulda Palsdottir, an archaeozoologist from the University of Oslo, believes the findings are very valuable.She said: "They're trying to use all the methods in the toolbox to answer this really important question of what people were really eating back then."The research team are now hoping to reconstruct the composition of bacteria and other micro-organisms that lived in the Iceman's gut to see how it differs from what modern people show.Otzi was discovered in 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley.Based on three-dimensional images of the mummy's skeleton, a model of how Otzi would look was created by experts. Source link