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33. HORRIBLE CUSTOM. Some of the natives
of central Africa indulge in the horrible, and to us the
almost unbelievable, custom of eating their own dead.
This picture shows a cure being administered by the
village witch and her assistant to a woman suffering
from cramps, caused by excess in eating from the
flesh of a dead relative. This horrible custom exists,
no doubt, because of the scarcity of meat, of which
the natives are very fond.
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