Humans consuming other humans has taken many strange forms over history. It doesn't always involve murder, and sometimes it's the last resort for survival, but it always strikes us as creepy. You'll learn some thing you never knew before in this TED-Ed lesson, including the etymological connection between the words "Caribbean" and "cannibal." Incidentally, "kuru" is a prion disease, along the lines of Creutzfeldt–Jakob and mad cow disease. -via Digg
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Mumia was a kind of cure all and that was originally produced from naturally occurring bitumen pitch. When latin translators translated Mumia pitch from Arabic medical journals they falsly assumed it was pitch made from the Mumia(mummies) instead of the bitumen pitch before it was put into a mummified body. During the crusades hearing about the drug mumia's healing properties cursaders brought stories of it back to Europe. Mumia was so strong that perhaps it could cure the dead which may have lead to the Mummy rising from the grave stories though there is no way to know if there really is a connection.
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