Human Leopards
Author | : Sir Kenneth James Beatty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Cannibalism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Kenneth James Beatty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Cannibalism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Kenneth James Beatty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Cannibalism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Kenneth James Beatty |
Publisher | : anboco |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2017-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3736419260 |
Captain Beatty, just before leaving for the Dardanelles, asked me to write a preface. I think that the best preface will be to answer, as far as I am able, several questions which were frequently put to me on my return to civilization after the conclusion of the Special Commission Court. These questions were, "What was the object of the Human Leopard Society? Were its members cannibals for the purpose of satisfying an appetite for human flesh, or was it some religious rite? Would the sentences inflicted by the Special Commission Court have the effect of stamping out the horrible practice?" The first question can be answered with some confidence. The trend of the whole evidence showed that the prime object of the Human Leopard Society was to secure human fat wherewith to anoint the Borfima. The witnesses told us how the occasion of a murder is used to "blood" the Borfima, but the potency of this terrible fetish depends upon its being frequently supplied with human fat. Hence these murders. The question as to cannibalism it is not possible to answer with any degree of certainty. The Commission sat for over five months, had before it vihundreds of witnesses, and the notes of evidence ran into thousands of pages; but the Court was a judicial tribunal, and it was anxious to bring its labours to an end as speedily as possible, so that no question was asked or allowed by the Court which was not relevant to the issue. Again and again answers given by witnesses opened up avenues which it would have been most interesting to investigate, but, unless the investigation was relevant to the case in hand or would have served to elucidate some other part of the evidence which was doubtful, the Court could not allow it to be pursued. Nor would it have been seemly for the members of the Court to make private investigation into a matter before them judicially.
Author | : K J Beatty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2021-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789492355492 |
The early 20th century showed an increase number of occult murders by the Human Leopard Society of Sierra Leone. The main reason for the killings was to obtain human fat for anointing a terrible fetish called the Borfima, whose black magic depended on the frequency with which it was "fed". These killings got mixed with ritual cannibalism, of which the first reports for this area date back to 1609. Unlike other Leopards Societies an unexplainable social dissonant sticks to the Sierra Leone version: "The bush seemed to me pervaded with something supernatural, a spirit which was striving to bridge the animal and the human. Some of the weird spirit of their surroundings has, I think, entered into the people, and accounts for their weird customs. The people are by no means a low, savage race. I found many of them highly intelligent, shrewd, with more than the average sense of humor, and with the most marvelous faculty for keeping hidden what they did not wish to be known..." (W. Brandford Griffith, September 1915.) This revised and illustrated edition comes with a Post Scriptum about other Leopard fraternities like the Congolese Anyota, the Nigerian Ekpe and it's offspring the Cuban Abakuá.
Author | : John Cameron Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Ethiopia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth Beatty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2017-02-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781520551593 |
A recounting of the "Human Leopard Society", a group of cannibals in the Hinterland of Sierra Leone who were captured and tried for their crimes against humanity.
Author | : Kenneth James Beatty |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2018-10-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780342664825 |
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Author | : Paul Farmer |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0374716986 |
“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014. It is hard to imagine a more timely or important book.” —Bill and Melinda Gates "[The] history is as powerfully conveyed as it is tragic . . . Illuminating . . . Invaluable." —Steven Johnson, The New York Times Book Review In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it? Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned doctor and anthropologist, experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand—Partners in Health, the organization he founded, was among the international responders. In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he offers the first substantive account of this frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. In vibrant prose, Farmer tells the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing why the medical response was slow and insufficient. Rebutting misleading claims about the origins of Ebola and why it spread so rapidly, he traces West Africa’s chronic health failures back to centuries of exploitation and injustice. Under formal colonial rule, disease containment was a priority but care was not – and the region’s health care woes worsened, with devastating consequences that Farmer traces up to the present. This thorough and hopeful narrative is a definitive work of reportage, history, and advocacy, and a crucial intervention in public-health discussions around the world.
Author | : David Pratten |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2007-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748631003 |
This book is an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the imperial gaze of police, press and politicians was focused on a series of mysterious deaths in south-eastern Nigeria attributed to the 'man-leopard society'. These murder mysteries, reported as the 'biggest, strangest murder hunt in the world', were not just forensic but also related to the broad historical impact of commercial, Christian and colonial aid relations on Annang society.
Author | : Kenneth James Beatty |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290728720 |
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