Cannibalism
Excluding the random psychopaths or the occasional group of stranded people who are forced to eat each other to survive, are there still legitimate groups of cannibals who still regard eating humans as part of their culture? Apparently so.
Some say they do, and some say they don’t, but if you ask the Korowai people they admit that—yes—they still eat their fellow tribesman. Located in Indonesian New Guinea, this tribe has a long tradition (dating from prehistoric times) of eating humans, and the fact that they’ve been relatively isolated from the modern world for so long has allowed this custom to remain. Today, their most common human entrée is a khakhua (a witch doctor), whom they supposedly torture, kill, and eat—brains first. They believe that khakhuas eat people from the inside, so it is only just that they eat khakhuas in return.
When Smithsonian Journalist Paul Raffaele went to stay with the Korowai tribe, his guides openly shared their own experiences with cannibalism and even cleared up the rumor according to which human flesh tastes like pig; apparently it tastes more like a cassowary bird (just in case you wanted to know).
Besides the Korowai, there are rumors that other cannibals exist in remote places throughout the South Pacific, and in 2011 the media claimed that a German sailor, Stefan Ramin, was eaten by cannibals. Of course there was no irrefutable proof that he had been consumed, but the only things left of him were his charred and dismembered bones, teeth, and clothing remnants, which authorities found by an old campfire. His guide was long gone.
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