They Eat and Marry
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[?]Oble Savages
They Eat and Marry Their Mothers
DRCERY (“making poison,” it
I is called in Pidgin), cannibalism J incest are just a few of the tigs that have been reported fly from one of the remotest as of the Eastern Highlands of w Guinea. he unsavoury details may come i shock to the many uninformed pie who believe that the splendid sige should be left in isolation to tinue to live an idyllic life.
Tien District Commission lan ms visited the Okapa and lari River area recently, he re ;ed that all deaths in the area b attributed to sorcery and are ned on an innocent and un •ecting native, who is then ally murdered. Women and Iren are blamed frequently, ich killing is paid back in an nsive vendetta. cest is said to be rife, and there ; been several cases of sons kill fathers in order to marry their tiers. le same area eats its own dead, le real cause of most of the hs is believed to be often iria. The tribe is in danger :termination unless the practices stopped. image of females under 12 is lent owing to the general short of women. e Administration will seek cal and anthropological assist to deal with the problem.