In one of the largest insurances of Cannibalism in recorded history, European Crusaders slaughtered & ate an entire city of Muslims. According to the Chronicler Ralph of Caen, adults were boiled while the children were impaled & spit-roasted
According to eyewitness testimony from the priest & fellow Crusader, Fulcher of Chartres, some of the Crusaders were very impatient & didn't wait for the bodies to cook, so they cut off the buttocks of dead Muslims & devoured them raw.
While modern historians have attempted to blame hunger for the Cannibalism, according to Ralph of Caen, it was a celebratory public spectacle rarher than a shameful hidden incident. Also, many of the Crusaders had publicly announced their intention to "Chew the flesh of saracens"
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