10-17-2015, 02:29 PM
Cannibalism is sometimes blamed by classical authors onto Irish Celts:
"Besides some small islands round about Britain, there is also a large island, Ierne, which stretches parallel to Britain on the north, its breadth being greater than its length.Concerning this island I have nothing certain to tell, except that its inhabitants are more savage than the Britons, since they are man-eaters "
Strabo, Geography, IV, 5, 4
Furthermore, St. Jerome, speaking of the Attacotti, possibly an Irish or Caledonian tribe, wrote:
"Why should I speak of other nations when I myself, a youth on a visit to Gaul, heard that the Attacotti, a British tribe, eat human flesh, and that although they find herds of swine, and droves of large or small cattle in the woods, it is their custom to cut off the buttocks of the shepherds and the breasts of their women, and to regard them as the greatest delicacies?"
Jer. Adv. Jovin. 2.7.
However, this accounts are considered dubious by most historians
"Besides some small islands round about Britain, there is also a large island, Ierne, which stretches parallel to Britain on the north, its breadth being greater than its length.Concerning this island I have nothing certain to tell, except that its inhabitants are more savage than the Britons, since they are man-eaters "
Strabo, Geography, IV, 5, 4
Furthermore, St. Jerome, speaking of the Attacotti, possibly an Irish or Caledonian tribe, wrote:
"Why should I speak of other nations when I myself, a youth on a visit to Gaul, heard that the Attacotti, a British tribe, eat human flesh, and that although they find herds of swine, and droves of large or small cattle in the woods, it is their custom to cut off the buttocks of the shepherds and the breasts of their women, and to regard them as the greatest delicacies?"
Jer. Adv. Jovin. 2.7.
However, this accounts are considered dubious by most historians
