Canibalismo, aspect macabro of history – Romantismo. Between the Brazilian savages, the romantic justification for the
Canibalismo - to incorporate the courage of the
enemy - until can be applicable in rare cases, but what it prevailed exactly they were the taste for the
human barbecue and the feeling of revenge for the enemy. A serious offence or threat was to look at somebody and to make the gesture to bite the proper arm; this meant, more or less, "I go to catch you and to eat todinho". In some villages, mainly of tupinambás, the meat human being was storaged as food and the victim kept imprisoned and under fattening for weeks or months. But nor always one expected to consume the creature. During fights between tribes, the capture of the enemy had canibalismo cases soon after, to saciar the appetite of the warriors and its families. E as our
indians appreciated the meat very human being, return and stocking invaded other villages exclusively to get the tidbit. The German Hans Staden was shipwrecked in Itanhaém, in 1553, and was imprisoned during nine months in the village of the Cunhambebe chieftain, in the region of Mangaratiba, Rio De Janeiro. Its book "Trip to Brazil" registers these richly and other aspects of the canibalismo and is recommended reading, as well as "Trip to the Land of Brazil", of Jean de Léry, that folloied Villegaignon in the implantation of France Antarctica in Rio De Janeiro. The strong
religious influence must be led in account on the authors of the stories; Hans Staden, for example, credits to the repeated divine interventions the fact not to have been devorado for the natives. Logical: in times of religious fanatism, Staden would not be fool to escape of the churrasqueira of the indians to risk itself to fall in the fogueira of the Inquisition.
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