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The question is not whether it is worth eating
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human meat, but what kind of meat
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you should eat. Today we will discuss the very
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delicate issue of our existence. The very
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issue due to which we may not be being
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told the true history of
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mankind. We will talk about the meat
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diet of
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our ancestors. Not those distant
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Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons about whom
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historians know hardly anything. Instead, let's talk about
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people who lived in a time period much closer to us.
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What is strange is that archaeologists find
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quite a few ancient cemeteries in our country (Russia),
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Two large periods of these are the period of the
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Scythians, of the Sarmatians, in which people were interred
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in mounds.
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It is not known when this period began, but
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it most likely ended in the 14th century.
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And so until the 14th century people with elongated and
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ordinary skulls were buried in mounds.
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(then attacked?)? There is a period of the Middle Ages and the
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for some reason, the tradition of burying people in cemeteries and in
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in cemeteries and mounds disappears.
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Of course, massive accumulations of bones are
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found on the territory of Europe, but
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usually they are found during construction
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work. And these places have not been previously recorded
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as a cemetery. Also found in
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Europe are seemingly
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ennobled funeral sites, but
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these collections of bones are very difficult to call
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cemeteries. This could be called a warehouse of
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well-boiled and cleaned bones.
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Here is an example, the Chapel of Bones at Evora, Portugal.
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It is said to be decorated with bones of more than
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five thousand people.
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According to the historical version, there is
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nothing unusual to this story.
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In 16th century Evora,
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there were 43 cemeteries that
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occupied valuable land and, so that
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these lands could used profitably, the monks
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dug up all the bones in the cemeteries and decorated
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the church with the bones. Just the usual history
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of the Middle Ages.
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There are a lot of such churches in Europe,
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and the largest collection of bones
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is the Parisian catacombs.
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In them, are the remains of several
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million people. As if it were nothing
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unusual, people gathered bones in the
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catacombs. In this story, it was just
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more convenient for them. Land was expensive...
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Why spend on a cemetery?
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Only one thing surprises, and that is the appearance of the
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bones themselves. There is a feeling that these bones,
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if not boiled, had passed through
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a stage of very thorough cleaning. Now let's
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move on to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea
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and consider other rather unusual
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structures. The so-called public
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toilets of ancient Rome. In ancient Rome,
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you understand, there were no
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buildings as such that
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historians have dubbed public
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toilets. And these structures are
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not only found in large cities; they are
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found even in villages of only
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two streets. So according to historians, the
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mythical ancient Romans loved to
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spend time in public
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toilets. Representatives of the middle class used to use such toilets,
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because
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historians know that the entrance to a public
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toilet was paid and poor people... they simply
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did not have the means to take advantage of the
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benefits of civilization. What was
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there to pay for? Firstly, in
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these rooms the Romans
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conducted small talk, read poems,
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discussed the latest political news,
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made business appointments. Clean, running water
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ran in the gutters built into
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the floor because toilet paper
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had not yet been invented. Then the Romans wiped themselves with
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reusable sea sponges
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fixed on a stick. After being used
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these were washed in running water
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in the channels under their feet. Therefore, the shape of the
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glasses is such a strange hole, not only
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from above but also between the legs, this is done
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just so that a person does not get up, I
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could use a sponge remove the extra ones on a stick,
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since sitting on a stone
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was quite uncomfortable; there were
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specially trained slaves
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who warmed
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marble benches with their heels while waiting for clients.
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Judging by the descriptions of historians, it was
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just some kind of communal paradise club of
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true gentlemen who were
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happy to discuss in such places.
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political and city news and even
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read new poems. Everything here was for the
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convenience of wealthy patricians and
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reusable sponges and special slaves
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to warm the seats and even pleasantly
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bubbling water underfoot. Just an
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idyllic picture confuses me true a
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few tiny moments. In the first place,
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how do historians know about the real
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purpose of these premises?
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After all, the first toilet room was discovered by the
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Italian archaeologist Giacomo Bani
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only in 1913, in his report, he
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suggested that the leaky bench could
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be part of a complex mechanism
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designed to supply water to the
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upper rooms of the palace and this is a very
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important fact, which means that until 1913
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no one knew anything at all about the purpose of
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such premises. Today though, historians
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talk about these places in great
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detail. Entrance fees, intimate
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conversations of patricians on the feat of how to
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use a reusable sponge. I
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wonder where the historian knows this all from. The
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second interesting point is the
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material from which it is made. Lena from
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the restroom bench, According to historians, people
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sat on a stone for hours discussing
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political news. It seems that everything would be
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fine - in summer in Rome and other cities of the
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Mediterranean Sea it is
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hot and it would be very comfortable to sit on a pebble of shade.
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But after all, Rome not only has hot summers...
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it is also quite cool in winter, when the
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temperature can drop to three
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degrees. Now imagine patricians come
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to a public toilet in winter,
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sit down on a chilly marble
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bench and start a leisurely conversation about
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politics and sports.
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If a man older than 40 sits at least
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several times on cold stones, then
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he inevitably develops a rather
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painful inflammation called
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prostatitis So there is nothing
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surprising in the fact that ancient Rome
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disappeared. Ancient rome ruined public
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toilets with prostatitis and reusable sponges. Of
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course you can argue here because
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historians have told us about specially
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trained slaves who warmed up the
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marble seat in anticipation of a client.
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Itās just that I donāt... I can't imagine how a
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person can warm up a marble slab weighing
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several hundred kilograms with his bum.
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Three. An interesting
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aspect... public toilets
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were located not only in big
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cities but also in small villages of
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several hundred people. If, in big
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cities, a lot of people gathered in
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a club of interests,
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then who went to these places in villages?
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Villages where mainly slaves and hired workers lived,
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and the middle class was represented by a
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dozen people who had
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their own villas with all amenities.
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And this is what I am leading to - historians do not know the exact
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purpose of these premises. They do not know
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who, when, and why they were built. An interesting
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version I found here in this blog. There's a
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link in the description. In his opinion, these
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places were used as to slaughter. A
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man was placed on his knees, lowered
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his head into the hole.
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A sword-swipe and the blood flowed down
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special grooves, sponges on sticks
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collected the remnants of
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the blood bath.
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This version is, of course, controversial but you yourself
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read it
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there presented very specific
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pictures from this version are also consistent,
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but this fresco, according to historians, the
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Roman goddess fortune protected the
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toilet visitors from danger. The
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big sword confuses me and the strange cup in
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her hands hints at her
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that. Now let's go back to the
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Middle Ages and let's see how society as a
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whole treated human remains.
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This issue is well dealt with in the book
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nabla "Medicinal Cannibalism in
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English literature and culture of modern
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times,
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as well as the book by Richard Saga is before
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the university of rome england
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called mummies cannibals and vampires
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History of Cadaveric Medicine from the
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Renaissance to the
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Victorian Era. These books
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tell that for several hundred
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years, reaching its peak in the 16-17th Centuries,
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many Europeans, including members of the
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royal family, priests and scientists,
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took medicines containing
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human bones, blood and fat
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as a medicine for everything from
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major pains to epilepsy. Mummy for
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medicines were recovered from Egyptian tombs.
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Skulls from Irish burials...
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Egyptian mummies were finely crushed and
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added to a tincture
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for internal bleeding. Thomas came out -
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a 17th century brain science pioneer - mixed a
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powdered human skull and
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chocolate and thus received a
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cure for apoplexy and bleeding.
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King of England Charles II took
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his drops. A personal tincture
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containing a human skull in alcohol
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was considered a very valuable powder of moss,
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which simply on human turtles
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was believed to heal
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nosebleeds and possibly epilepsy.
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sprout
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on the skull under certain conditions. Most often
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this happened when the body was not
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buried. Second, a person must have
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died a violent death and
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Ireland in the 17th century was a
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country strewn with heaps of dead bodies.
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One summer the father of chemistry Robert Boyle
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suffered badly from nosebleeds.
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During a particularly tough incident the
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great man decided to use the
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skull moss that was sent to
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his sister by a great man as a
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gift from Ireland. The usual method
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was to inject the snuff usually
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in powder directly into the nostrils.
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But Boyle discovered that he could completely
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stop bleeding simply by holding a skull
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in his hand.
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In 1694 Pierre Pomet, chief pharmacist to
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Louis the Fourteenth, commented on
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how English pharmacists, especially
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London ones, sell the head or skulls of the
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dead on which there is a small
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greenish mould. England received such
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skulls from Ireland. Pomet also described
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English imports moss
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covered skulls from foreign
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countries, especially in Germany, where they were
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used as an ointment for wounds and
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also to stop bleeding bruises.
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He says English pharmacists
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usually bring these heads from Ireland,
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this country has been wonderful for them since the
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days of Irish life.
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Skulls drenched in moss were of high
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value in the time of Charles II. One
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skull
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could cost 11 shillings. During the
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reign of George I, skulls became an
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international export item.
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They were even specially designated in the list of
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customs duties. In 1725, the duty on
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one skull was one shilling.
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Human fat was used as an
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external ointment. Rubbing fat into the skin
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was considered an effective remedy for
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gout.
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German Swiss doctor Paracelsus
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believed that human blood
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was good for drinking. Poor people who could
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not buy
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processed blood in pharmacies came
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to public executions and collected
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blood with handkerchiefs. Fat also. In German countries the
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executioner was considered a great healer and from
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him for a small amount you could
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buy a bowl of blood. Powders made from mummies
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were sold in German pharmacies
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until the beginning of the 20th century. In Germany,
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in 1908, the last
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known attempt to swallow blood on the
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scaffold was made. As you can see, until the beginning of the 20th
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century, Europe was very loyal.
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The consumption of medicines prepared from
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humans seems to be nothing
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unusual. Even today some
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medicines are made from the same
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ingredients, so it is. But medicines
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are only the top of the pyramid.
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Look at this engraving here...
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Europeans exchange meat for indigenous
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jewelry. What kind of meat is I think
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unnecessary to explain and what is important to emphasize
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is that a European acts as the shopowner.
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This is just a piece of the engraving. The complete
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engraving can be viewed at the link in the
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description. All the details are there
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so that the people of the Middle Ages very freely
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handled the human body... Could
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use it as a basis for the
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preparation of medicines. And were
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not embarrassed to use it as meat.
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Now we will digress a little from
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their gloomy stories and look at
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such a beautiful thing as English
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bone china.
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This is an elegant product and the words "bone china"
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do not mean more durable or
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anything else. Simple
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bone china is a mixture of bone meal with
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ceramic material. The
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bone meal gives the porcelain a warm
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soft color and transparency. Bone meal
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can be up to 45 percent of the
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product. They say that they used to
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use the bones of cows,
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but that's strange, as I said
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before, many churches in England are very similar
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to a crematorium. We do not have medieval cemeteries,
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but we have a structure that is similar to crematorium.
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So very often churches are built according to a
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very simple scheme. There is an altar part...
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adjacent to it a refectory man of a
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refectory adjoins a bell tower with something
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similar to a chimney. I was always confused by the
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names of such a large room as a
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refectory. From the refectory immediately the exit of the
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bell tower looks like a stove and so and
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if the bodies were burned in a furnace, after all, bones are
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very difficult to burn without a residue and
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therefore this scheme lacks four rooms for
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processing. And which place is still
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notorious in the
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villages? Correct, the mill.
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It is the mill in fairy tales which is often
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associated with evil spirits.
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Although this is illogical; on the contrary, the mill
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should symbolize holidays, the nickname of the harvest and
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satiety, but no, they often say about the mill
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that this is a damned place and that is what is
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interesting. In Great Britain, at the beginning of the 19th
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century, there was a specialized
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bone mill located in the
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village of Narborough. There
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was more than one of these mills.
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In 1820, almost every port on the east
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coast
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had access to one or several donated by the
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abundant mills at the mill in the set they
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processed the mouths into fine
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crushed bone meal which, as
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fertilizer was applied to the fields. They claim they
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mainly processed the whalebone.
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We read further: the villagers
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brought some bones
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to grind the bones the same way they did.
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From northern Germany ships brought
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bones taken from the graves with
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static, no one bothered, but they
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just said: "one ton of German
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bone dust saves the import of 10 tons of
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German corn".
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I'm wondering what was happening on the
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territory of Germany in 1820.
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There was no German state of its own, so why was
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there a huge flow of
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bodies from these territories? We will move on to the last
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part of our story, let's call it
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"underground mystical", we all heard from childhood
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about the underground passages that are often
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located under church buildings.
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Smuggling
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merchants
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find a lot of ways for moving goods.
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But almost no one studies them,
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or rather, almost no one. One enthusiast from the
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Stolen History forum analyzed
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228 legends of tunnels from eastern England.
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So 122 tunnels
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end in church name places, such as
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'abbey'
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'cathedral', 'chapel', 'church', 'monastery'.
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A lot of tunnels connect
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seemingly contradictory places. For example, taverns and pubs are
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connected with a nunnery or
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church; churches also had underground
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passages to the local market and it is strange that
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these tunnels were almost always
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found by chance; there is no mention of their construction.
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They are not just in the city but in non-church
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choirs,
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and itās as if some people built the tunnels
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and built houses and churches over the tunnels
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completely different. It's like in the H. G. Wells
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novel The Time Machine. On the surface
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live happy people who go about
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their business and
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enjoy the sun but right under the feet of
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these happy people hid another
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eerie world of brick tunnels where
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Morlocks live. Morlocks rise at night from
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their brick tunnels and eats
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happy Elois. It seems that these are all the
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fantasies of crazy science fiction writers, but in Europe the
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cult of fairy tales is very common and the
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eater of
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small children in Bern even has a monument to
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one eater. All these
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stories seem to hint to us about some kind of power
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that uses people as food, but it's
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all mysticism. Let's move on to interesting
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facts of the
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political history of England and events
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that are associated with attacks by peasants
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on churches and, more interestingly, on the
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meat market (like Smithfields). In England,
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skewers
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for long pigs are often found in kitchensi. English
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nouns
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for various religious structures are
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surprisingly similar to English nouns
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that
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are associated with the meat trade and meat
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processing. In England there were many
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pubs called the Jolly Friar.
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In many underground tunnels of England
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hooks for meat hang from
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the walls. Special cups for human fat have been preserved.
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;
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Stamford, where 40 nuns live, they
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discovered vaulted rooms three
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meters high.
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For some reason, at the site of
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convents and orphanages, they still
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find mass graves of children and
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babies. In Ireland at the site of the excavation of
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the former home of mothers and children in
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County Galway.
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divided into 20 chambers containing a
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significant number of human
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remains, a total of 800 people
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aged 35 weeks to three years. This
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orphanage was ran by a Catholic order of
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nuns.
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Also in Lincoln, England, the clergy
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collected the blood of infants and
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young children until 1535 to treat
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diseases such as leprosy.
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All this speaks of some strange
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connection between English churches and monasteries with
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local markets,
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then faithful and hospitals for the treatment of
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lepers of mankind. Already before the 14th century,
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according to official history, mankind experienced a network of
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catastrophic events as a result of
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which the great famine of 1315 arose,
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and after this famine appeared a
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huge number Catholic churches
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with a refectory.
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Women's monasteries appeared where
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they brought up small children
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and, by a strange coincidence, the
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churches and monasteries of England were very often
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connected by underground passages with local
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markets. Of course, this could be just a
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coincidence, but by a strange
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coincidence at the beginning of the 19th century, when the
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world economy recovered and in
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almost all countries the food problem was solved,
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in England,
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a lot of small workers appeared at all enterprises.
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That is, teenagers,
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adolescents, worked in all areas
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from cotton mills to coal mines. At the
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end of the 19th century, a concept arose in the USA
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such that orphan
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trains carried teenagers around the American continent by trains
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and gave them to everyone. It was
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not the adoption of teenagers; they were delivered
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as free labor. And the
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conclusion is: that the system
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that used children as a product
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outlived its usefulness in the 18th century, but there
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were a lot of children in monasteries in order to somehow
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use them, they began to be given up for
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production.
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This is, of course, a very controversial theory, but all the
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facts say that the history of the Middle
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Ages
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does not look as beautiful as it is painted in
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romantic engravings. There was a hunger, eating
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...
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parchment medicines of their own kind
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from human bodies and even great
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campaigns armies of many thousands are no longer
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surprising because the main question is what the
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army feeds on in a campaign that lasts for
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years, this is what it feeds on the
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history of mankind of the Middle Ages
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can convey this symbol.
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