my eats me or not. I know of no game which
tastes better than men. You whites are really too dainty."

+341. In-group cannibalism.+ Cannibalism was so primordial in the
mores that it has two forms, one for the in-group, the other for
the out-group. It had a theory of affection in the former case
and of enmity in the latter. In the in-group it was so far from
being an act of hostility, or veiled impropriety, that it was
applied to the closest kin. Mothers ate their babies, if the
latter died, in order to get back the strength which they had
lost in bearing them. Herodotus says that the Massagetae
sacrificed the old of their tribe, boiling the flesh of the men
with that of cattle and eating the whole. Those who died of
disease before attaining old age were buried, but that they
thought a less happy fate. He says that the Padeans, men in the
far east of India, put a sick man of their tribe to death and ate
him, lest his flesh should be wasted by disease. The women did
the same by a sick woman. If any reach old age without falling
victims to this custom, they too are then killed and eaten. He
mentions also the Issidones, in southeastern Russia, who cut up
their dead fathers, mingle the flesh with that of sacrificed
animals, and make a feast of the whole. The skull is cleaned,
gilded, and kept as an emblem, to which they make annual
sacrifices. They are accounted a righteous people. Amongst them
women are esteemed equal with men.[1054] Strabo[1055] says that
the Irish thought it praiseworthy to eat their deceased parents.
The Birhors of Hazaribag, Hindostan, formerly ate their parents,
but "they repudiate the suggestion that they ate any but their
own relations" [i.e. each one ate his own relatives and no
others?][1056]. Reclus[1057] says that in that tribe "the parents
beg that their corpses may find a refuge in the stomachs of their
children rather than be left on the road or in the forest." The
Tibetans, in ancient times, ate their parents, "out of piety, in
order to give them no other sepulcher than their own bowels."
This custom ceased before 1250 A.D., but the cups made of the
skulls of relatives were used as memorials. Tartars and some "bad
Christians" killed their fathers when old, burned the corpses,
and mingled the ashes with their daily food.[1058] In the gulf
country of Australia only near relatives partak