Baby Eaters

[Trillipse]

Am entrenched in a psyche essay, and wondered if any ABers knew of any baby-eaters through history...?

Hardly a pleasant topic, i realise. For which, sincere apologies...

[Skids]

Fat B@stard from Austin Powers.

[maxi29]

"a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled "

Jonathan Swift - A modest proposal. LOL

[jake-the-peg]

Mythologically - Saturn

http://www.jordan.palo-alto.ca.us/staff/lgoldman/public/mmart3/class/16/merry.html

(don't click just after lunch)

[SeaJayPea]

There is some stuff here about a Chinese artise who says he has done this.

Er, are you sure you're at the right seat of learning?

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2614643.stm

[d0gsb0dy]

The Sawney Bean family were into cannibalism. They ate anybody. :)
http://www.seanachaidh.org/sawney.htm

[Octavius]

Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

Cannibalism in Egypt during the famine of 1201 (written 1201-1207): 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....... A merchant friend of mine, a man you can count on, came from Alexandria and told me of a great many events of this kind that he had seen for himself. Most remarkable of what he told me was that he had seen five children's heads in a single cauldron, cooked with the choicest spices.

[Peter Pedant]

Mmm psyche - I'll note to keep away from that. Human i suppose, Rottweilers dont count.....

Some pope drank a pint of baby blood in an effort to keep alive (failed)

Didnt Boccaccio write about Count Ugolino Qualcheduno who was walled up with his children and ate them?

Ugh, disgusting even to think about....

[Ward-Minter]

watch the movie "Cannibal Holocaust" or read my excellant review on amazon here.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/d vd/B000639WPU/customer-reviews/ref=cm_rev_sort/202-90640 25-3903823?show=-rating&Go.x=9&Go.y=10

[ineedahobby]

The Baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, he was however, only a character in Black Adder.

[Johnmof]

Caligula is supposed to have cut his unborn child out of his sister's womb and eaten it. Apparently he feared that the child would be a god and upstage daddy.

[thorkel9]

I think the worshippers of Molech(in the Bible) sacrificed babies in a fire - but I don't think they ate them.  Not sure if it's relevant to your essay, but I found this article quite interesting, if horrific!

"Not to be outdone by the Aztecs, however, the Canaanite civilization was perhaps the most ominous and ritualistic when it came to child sacrifice. For instance, the Ammonite practice of sacrificing children to Molech was performed in the following manner: (1) A huge, hollow iron statue of the god was heated up from the inside so that the statue became like a furnace. In appearance, the statue stood erect with its iron-hot hands outstretched, and there was a mouth which would open and close, the mechanism being controlled by a secret lever; (2) This was a religious sacrifice, so it was officiated by the Canaanite (in this case, Ammonite) priesthood; (3) A woman would give her child into the arms of the priest, and the priest would walk, in ritual procession, toward the statue of Molech, between two rows of drummers who would slowly pound their big toms in order to "drown-out" the cries of the parents and children; (4) The priest would place the child on the burning-hot arms of Molech, and because the arms were tilted toward the body of the statue, the child would roll toward the mouth which would then be opened by the secret lever; (5) The child, scorched by the burning-hot arms, would then roll into the open mouth of the god and be consumed in the bowels of the inner furnace. Interestingly, many archaeological excavations in Syria, Palestine, and Jordan have revealed a massive deposit of infant remains which are, no doubt, the human debris from such Canaanite sacrificial rites. And it is with regard to this barbaric practice, i.e. child sacrifice, that the Bible makes numerous powerful, explicit condemnations."