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BARBARIC British royalty and Elites and German Elites dined on human flesh

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Jul 23, 2022, 5:27:15 AM7/23/22
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EVERYTHING about WASPs is FAKE.

WASPs are pure BARBARIC RACIST EVIL CANNIBAL THIEVES who "cunningly SOLD
themselves" as civilized.

EVEN GODS will be SHOCKED at the DECEPTION of EVIL WASPs.

Germans were DINING on HUMAN FLESH as recent as 1865.


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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389142/British-royalty-dined-human-flesh-dont-worry-300-years-ago.html

British royalty dined on human flesh (but don't worry it was 300 years ago)

They have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich
recipes. But what is less well known is that the British royals also
had a taste for human flesh.

A new book on medicinal cannibalism has revealed that possibly as
recently as the end of the 18th century British royalty swallowed parts
of the human body.

The author adds that this was not a practice reserved for monarchs but
was widespread among the well-to-do in Europe.

Even as they denounced the barbaric cannibals of the New World, they
applied, drank, or wore powdered Egyptian mummy, human fat, flesh, bone,
blood, brains and skin.

Moss taken from the skulls of dead soldiers was even used as a cure for
nosebleeds, according to Dr Richard Sugg at Durham University.

Dr Sugg said: 'The human body has been widely used as a therapeutic
agent with the most popular treatments involving flesh, bone or blood.

Cannibalism was found not only in the New World, as often believed, but
also in Europe.

'One thing we are rarely taught at school yet is evidenced in literary
and historic texts of the time is this: James I refused corpse medicine;
Charles II made his own corpse medicine; and Charles I was made into
corpse medicine.

'Along with Charles II, eminent users or prescribers included Francis I,
Elizabeth I's surgeon John Banister, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent,
Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, William III, and Queen Mary.'

The history of medicinal cannibalism, Dr Sugg argues, raised a number of
important social questions.

He said: 'Medicinal cannibalism used the formidable weight of European
science, publishing, trade networks and educated theory.

'Whilst corpse medicine has sometimes been presented as a medieval
therapy, it was at its height during the social and scientific
revolutions of early-modern Britain.

'It survived well into the 18th century, and amongst the poor it
lingered stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria.

'Quite apart from the question of cannibalism, the sourcing of body
parts now looks highly unethical to us.

'In the heyday of medicinal cannibalism bodies or bones were routinely
taken from Egyptian tombs and European graveyards. Not only that, but
some way into the eighteenth century one of the biggest imports from
Ireland into Britain was human skulls.

'Whether or not all this was worse than the modern black market in human
organs is difficult to say.'

The book gives numerous vivid, often disturbing examples of the
practice, ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and
Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and
Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland and on to the tribal
man-eating of the Americas.

A painting showing the 1649 execution of Charles I showed people mopping
up the king's blood with handkerchiefs.

Dr Sugg said: 'This was used to treat the "king's evil" - a complaint
more usually cured by the touch of living monarchs.

'Over in continental Europe, where the axe fell routinely on the necks
of criminals, blood was the medicine of choice for many epileptics.

'In Denmark the young Hans Christian Andersen saw parents getting their
sick child to drink blood at the scaffold. So popular was this treatment
that hangmen routinely had their assistants catch the blood in cups as
it spurted from the necks of dying felons.

'Occasionally a patient might shortcut this system. At one early
sixteenth-century execution in Germany, 'a vagrant grabbed the beheaded
body "before it had fallen, and drank the blood from him..".'

The last recorded instance of this practice in Germany fell in 1865.

Whilst James I had refused to take human skull, his grandson Charles II
liked the idea so much that he bought the recipe. Having paid perhaps
£6,000 for this, he often distilled human skull himself in his private
laboratory.

Dr Sugg said: 'Accordingly known before long as "the King's Drops", this
fluid remedy was used against epilepsy, convulsions, diseases of the
head, and often as an emergency treatment for the dying.

'It was the very first thing which Charles reached for on February 2
1685, at the start of his last illness, and was administered not only on
his deathbed, but on that of Queen Mary in 1698.'

Dr Sugg's research will be featured in a forthcoming Channel 4
documentary with Tony Robinson in which they reconstruct versions of
older cannibalistic medicines with the help of pigs' brains, blood and
skull.

The book, called Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires, will be published on
June 29 by Routledge and charts the largely forgotten history of
European corpse medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians.


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