“Archaeologists have found evidence of cannibalism as old as two and a half thousand years ago when they dug up human remains with butcher marks on the bones.”
“That’s disgusting. Why would you want to eat another person?” She shuddered.
“It was because of tribal and spiritual beliefs. The same way we set a spirit free after a wolf dies, the Fijian chiefs believed that if you consumed your enemy, you would inherit their knowledge, but it was also a means of power or revenge, you know, like a final insult to them,” Malachi explained.
They walked around Suva where Malachi stopped at a stall and bought her a cannibal doll made from coconut shells. They continued down the street and she looked back towards the museum. “And one day they just stopped?”
“Well, the Christian missionaries basic
