" Another tribe of Indians called Padaei who live east of the Indians marshes are nomads and eat raw meat. They are said to have the following customs . If any of their compatriots - man or woman - is ill, his closest male friends (assuming there is a man who is ill) kill it on the grounds that he was dying in the illness of his flesh will become spoiled. He denies he is ill, but they take no notice, kill and have a party. Exactly the same procedure is followed by the closest friends of a woman when she is a woman who is ill. they sacrifice and eat anyone who reaches old age, but it is unusual for anyone to do, because they kill everyone who falls ill before reaching old age . "
early researchers such as John Leyden Stamford Raffles and the Padaei supposed to be done or Batay Batta (or Batak) based on their interpretation of Pali, "the letter b p is almost always pronounced" Leyden said.
But they were not alone in assuming the cannibal spirit located in the eastern islands. When the Portuguese arrived in the Straits of Melaka in the early 16th century, their taking notes D'Alberquerque resident noticed how some of the ruling families in many states of the city on either side of the strategic part of the water, cannibals used as executioners were criminals "roasted" or "gruel" to eat. The Portuguese noted that many cannibals came from a "country called Aru (Sumatra), from which the King bought them food criminals.
A hundred years later, Edmund Scott had been filed in Banten (Banten Lama today but at the time the largest trading port in the region), and as he did not have enough problems coping with colleagues drink, fight and die, he had hunters local heads giving him sleepless nights "There were a few Javan women who cut the head of their husband during the night," he said, adding. "They dwell much on our house, "and was convinced that they would become victims had they not kept their guard.
You can almost feel the terror in his words as he wrote his candle light night after newspaper night, exhausted from negotiations and infighting that took hours of the day. the sinister jungle encircling him, and having no idea if a return ship would never take "what the stinking stew" as a beginning entrepreneur described he would end his days as so many others had.
Batak still appear as formidable cannibals in the writings of Dr. Felix Maynard and Alexandre Dumas in their work, the Whalers. They describe how being eaten alive was a way to justice those guilty of adultery, theft overnight or people who attack someone in their home.
In the case of adultery, the injured party has got to keep the offender's ears as the chief justice got to keep his head to himself. Interestingly, the party was not followed by the men as the authors noted, "Women use thousand subterfuges and employ all their enticements to" have a seat at the table with the men folk. Apparently soles cooked with rice and salt to make a "delicious dish" the most.
They also suggested the Batak used to eat their parents when they had outlived their usefulness. Apparently, when cédrats ripened old, they "should be seen voluntarily submit to death" as he died, the members of the remaining family hoot with songs of joy.
When the fruit is mature
must must fall
family finish their elderly parent before cutting the body, adding sambal and curry and enjoy the party.
course, how much truth there is in some of the most fantastic memories is questionable. Missionaries used to be very active in remote areas of the archipelago and adapted their story exposing the dangers they face, deal with these savages. Undoubtedly, they found wallets peoples would open much more quickly when they were faced with the unbridled savagery demanding to be rescued by the charismatic, heroic man of the cloth.
The Smithsonian Magazine sent an intrepid reporter in the jungles of Papua to meet Karowai. It was explained that the khakhua would disguise himself as a friend or relative of the person they wanted to kill, and then began to eat the entrails of the victim while they slept, considerately replaced by fire ash so as not to disrupt the victim. Before the victim is breathing its last they tell her parents the name of khakhua, effectively signing his death warrant.
One of Karowai described what happened in one case. A cousin of his was dying and told them who was khakhua. They caught the "witch" and fired arrows in his body before cutting his head. They then cut the body up, carefully wrap the meat in banana leaves before putting them to other community members to eat.
This is the "witch" was one of their friends, but it n 't matter, saying it was a "justice system."
Of course, Korowai do not see themselves as man eaters "We do not eat humans," one said. "We only eat khakhua".
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