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CANNIBALISM IN EGYPT DURING THE FAMINE OF 1201


There was no longer any hope that the Nile would rise; and as a result the cost of provisions had already gone up. The provinces were ravaged by drought. The inhabitants foresaw a state of dearth as inevitable, and fear of famine led to disturbances. Those who lived in villages and in the countryside left for the main provincial towns. A great number emigrated to Syria, the Maghreb, Hejaz and the Yemen....

A vast multitude sought refuge in Misr and Cairo, where they were to meet with frightful famine and appalling mortality; for, when the sun entered the sign of Aries, the air became corrupt, and pestilence and a deadly contagion began to take their toll, and the poor, under the pressure of ever-growing want, ate carrion, corpses, dogs, excrement, and animal dung. They went further, and reached the stage of eating little children. It was not unusual to find people [selling] little children, roasted or boiled. The commandant of the city guard ordered that those who committed this crime should be burned alive, as should those who ate such meats.

I myself saw a little roast child in a basket. It was brought to the commandant, and led in at the same time were a man and woman who were the child’s father and mother. The commandant condemned them to be burned alive.

In the month of Ramadan a corpse was found at Misr with all the flesh stripped off for food, and its legs tied like a sheep trussed for cooking....

>>8884197
Unironically human meat

Would you mind being eaten after you die?
I wouldn't
Tell you what 1000 dolaroos and my dead ass is yours

checked the catalog, no cannibalism thread.

What ethnicity and/or nationality would taste the best?

The worst?

Vegetarian Italians or Greeks would be the tastiest. That Mediterranean diet and laziness would give some great marbling. Skin wouldn't be that great due to all that hair. Maybe the Japanese for their hairless skin (I like crackling).

I wouldn't eat Americans, Mexicans, or Indians. First two obviously too fat, nothing but fat. Indians bathe in a filthy river.