Do they still eat people in New Guinea?
In some tribes in New Guinea they eat people, but usually only in times of hardship or what I am about to explain. There is a belief in many tribes of New Guinea that blood thirsty witches turn people into demons. Anyone can be a demon as they look like the person who is possesed. If you are suspected of being a demon, a member of your (or another) tribe will challenge you, kill you, and eat you. Eating the body is supposedly the only way of ridding the demon. That is 100% true.
www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba59/feat1.shtml Sorry, I have not quite mastered how to put in active links. The following is from British Archaeology magazine. It’s very long but a read of the first and last paragraphs will give you the general picture. The edible dead Cannibalism is rarely mentioned in archaeology textbooks. But there is clear evidence for cannibalism in almost every society and every period, writes Timothy Taylor In the course of a single week in February, television audiences were exposed to two claims for cannibalism taking place in Britain in the mid-1st millennium BC. The first, in a Channel 4 documentary series, Cannibal, was based on cut-marked and split human long bones recently found at Eton in Berkshire. The second was part of a Time Team investigation into the ‘Bone Cave’, a substantial faunal deposit at Alveston near Bristol. Here, among many dog skeletons and various bits of a human, a fragment of thigh-bone showed a pattern of splitting which was interpreted as
