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To: EveningStar
Endocannibalism is a practice of eating the flesh of a human being from the same community (tribe, social group or society), usually after they have died.

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Maybe Doreen and her mom were Yanomamos ... Yanomami?

12 posted on 12/18/2017 3:34:23 PM PST by x
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To: x

The part of that line that bothers me the most, the “USUALLY after they died”.
Who ate part of the living when it wasn’t an enemy?


35 posted on 12/18/2017 4:26:23 PM PST by tbw2
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To: x
Technically, ashes aren't flesh.

Otherwise, it would be a from of anthropophagy.

(It was listed the other week on Gutenberg's RSS feed... "Anthropophagy by Charles W. Darling")

43 posted on 12/18/2017 4:58:17 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: x

I didn’t see your post before I posted, sorry


53 posted on 12/18/2017 5:40:03 PM PST by Citizen Soldier ("And I was born to pull turnips!" Demelza Poldark)
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