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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Ergot - was Rangefinder cameras
From: clark.ll@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:03:08 -0500
In <l03130305b693aab88db4@[203.62.227.104]>, on 01/24/01 at 08:46 AM,
   Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>I believe there was a form in the
>Pacific and/or New Guinea endemic among folk in the habit of eating
>their dead enemies, especially their brain, so that they could 'absorb'
>their more admirable qualities.

Was I wrong in understanding that the practice was one of the ways of
*honoring* dead relatives for their best qualities, and thus absorbing
these qualities in the living?

les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
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