for questions about claims based on cannibalism, the act of individuals eating other individuals of the same species.
Questions tagged [cannibalism]
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Can flatworms learn a maze by digesting other flatworms?
I recently watched the film Phantoms. A scientist in the movie claimed that flatworms were able to "consume" memories from other flatworms. The specific example was that of learning the solution to a maze by digesting ground up flatworms that had…
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Did the Saudi mufti issue a fatwa saying that men can eat their wives?
According to some news reports, a leading Muslim leader in Saudi Arabia has permitted men to eat their wives (the whole thing, or only part if that's all they need) if they get hungry enough. This is apparently the mufti Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah…
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Do North Koreans resort to cannibalism?
There have been rumors that North Korea is famine-plagued to such an extent that people even resort to cannibalism.
Reports from inside the secretive famine-hit pariah state, North Korea, claim a man has been executed after murdering his two…
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Was cannibalism acceptable amongst the Aztecs?
In 1979, William Arens published The Man-Eating Myth, in which he presented his finding that there is no good evidence that cannibalism was socially accepted by anybody, ever, and an hypothesis that such accounts are constructed by society as a way…
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Did the Donner party resort to cannibalism while snowbound in 1846-7?
This is a story of cannibalism in a snowed-in mountain pass, from the American western pioneer days.
There are a number of websites and much historical lore in California advocating the theory that the ill-fated Donner party resorted to…
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Does this photo depict a human flesh market during the Russian famine?
This distressing photo has circulated around the internet including Daily Mail or The Sun as the depiction of people selling human flesh during The Russian famine of 1921–22. However, the source cited by Wikipedia, "Russia 1904-1924. The…
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