Here is a beautiful tale of the Khanti, Mansi's neighbors:
"Two hunters married, one a Mos-ne, the other a Por-ne. They went to the forest to hunt. They were away for a long time. The women had no food any more. The Por-ne killed a child, and brought the meat to entertain the Mos-ne. The Mos-ne did not eat, only the Por-ne ate. Then she said: “I’ve entertained you, now you entertain me. Kill your child.” The Mos-ne did not want to eat her child, so she cut a rotten stump, cooked a rotten birch and gave to the Por-ne. The Por-ne said: “Your child is not tasty, mine was tasty.” The hunters came, brought meat, brought fish. The Mos-ne brought her child to greet the father. The Por-ne put some wood into the cradle. The Mos-ne had her child. The Por-ne had no child." (Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev, Hidden Rituals and Public Performances, Traditions and belonging among the post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts)
I like a lot the "tasty" consideration. It's like in the documentary of Oxford Humanities: "The meat didn't taste very good because we forgot to bring the spices with us"....
Ну раз такое дело - давайте обратимся к сказке француза Шарля Перро. И обнаружим - людоедов во французских сказках...
Мама Вам в детстве - читала сказку про кота в сапогах? Или Вы уже тогда слушали перед сном исключительно фрагменты этноса манси?
Все сказки всех народов мира - имеют хоть раз именно такой сюжетный ход. Тогда чего Вы так ополчились на манси?
Well, since such a thing - let's turn to the fairy tale of the Frenchman Charles Perrault. And we will find - cannibals in French fairy tales ...
Did your mother read a fairy tale about Puss in Boots when you were a child? Or did you already listen to fragments of the Mansi ethnic group before going to bed?
All the fairy tales of all the peoples of the world have at least once such a plot move. Then why are you so up in arms against the Mansi?
The collection of Russian folk tales gathered by Alexander Afanasiev is full of cannibalism episodes, of the ritual one, that is to say the commonly and socially practiced.
The fact that your ancestors ritually killed and ate innocent victims does not make you guilty of these practices. There is no link between the generations. But if you begin to deny the ugly practices of you ancestors, you establish a link that was not here, you made of yourself the accomplice of the practices.
Как вовремя Вы свернули на обрядовый каннибализм. А давайте поищем аналогичного в обрядах просвещенной Европы?
Готовы к получению шоковой информации? Ну тогда читайте и не говорите что Вам это не известно.
Современные этнографы и историки культуры наткнулись и заинтересовались древней и жестокой тюрингской легендой. Чтобы сделать замок Либенштейн неприступным, за большие деньги купили ребенка и решили замуровать в стену. Пока каменщики делали своё дело, ребёнок сидел в нише и ел пирог. Иногда он кричал находившейся рядом матери: «Мама, мне тебя видно… Мама, мне всё ещё тебя видно… Мама, я вижу тебя в щёлочку… Мама, а теперь я ничего не вижу».
Вскоре выяснилось, что подобные обряды были не только у немцев, а у всех народов Европы без исключения. Стены Копенгагена, например, несколько раз обрушивались, пока строители не прибегли к радикальному средству: взяли невинную голодную девочку и посадили за стол с игрушками и кушаньями. Пока девочка насыщалась и играла, двенадцать (сакральное число?) рабочих сложили свод. Затем во все время возведения стен около склепа играла музыка, чтобы заглушить вопли несчастной. В итальянских преданиях можно найти историю о мосте через реку Арту, который всё время обрушивался, пока в него не заложили жену строителя. Мост стоит, но его периодически трясёт от рыданий и проклятий несчастной женщины.
How timely you turned to ritual cannibalism. And let's look for something similar in the rituals of enlightened Europe?
Ready for some shock information? Well then read and do not say that you do not know.
Contemporary ethnographers and cultural historians. stumbled upon and became interested in the ancient and cruel Thuringian legend. To make Liebenstein Castle impregnable, they bought a child for a lot of money and decided to wall it up. While the masons did their work, the child sat in a niche and ate a pie. Sometimes he shouted to his mother who was nearby: “Mom, I can see you ... Mom, I can still see you ... Mom, I see you through the crack ... Mom, but now I don’t see anything.”
It soon became clear that such rituals were not only among the Germans, but among all the peoples of Europe, without exception. The walls of Copenhagen, for example, collapsed several times until the builders resorted to a radical remedy: they took an innocent, hungry girl and put them at a table with toys and food. While the girl was eating and playing, twelve (sacred number?) workers laid down the vault. Then, during the construction of the walls near the crypt, music was played to drown out the cries of the unfortunate. In Italian legends, you can find a story about a bridge over the Arta River, which kept collapsing until the builder's wife was laid in it. The bridge is standing, but it periodically shakes from the sobs and curses of the unfortunate woman.