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European explorers and colonizers brought home many stories of cannibalism practiced by the native peoples they encountered.

The friar Diego de Landa reported about Yucatán instances, and there have been similar reports by Purchas from Popayán, Colombia, and from the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, where human flesh was called long pig.

According to Hans Egede, the Inuits, when they killed a woman accused of witchcraft, ate a portion of her heart.

It is recorded about the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil: " They eat human flesh when they can get it, and if a woman miscarries devour the abortive immediately.

If she goes her time out, she herself cuts the navel-string with a shell, which she boils along with the secondine, and eats them both.