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Jennifer S. Mullen wrote:
> 
> Steve Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:
> 
> : This is total baloney.  Cannabilism is not uncommon in aboriginal
> : societies.  It's typically ritualistic.  Sometimes people eat their dead
> : relatives.  Sometimes they eat people from other tribes killed in
> : battle.  It happens even today.
> : The "laughing disease" was peculiar because it showed up mainly in
> : women.  It turns out that the men got the choice pieces (isn't that
> : typical) while the women had to be content with things like viscera and
> : brains.  The brains are the tissue that carry the disease.
> 
> Interesting. Do you have a cite for this?
> 
> Followups redirected to alt.folklore.urban.
> 
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I don't have a cite.  I heard it on National Public Radio in an 
interview with an authority on prion diseases.  He didn't sound like a 
nut to me, and NPR is not exactly Rush Limbaugh.

Maybe I'll contact NPR to find out who he was and what his credentials 
are.

	Steve Barnard

P.S. This topic is pretty irrelevant to many of these cross-posted 
newsgroups.  I haven't seen any complaints yet, so maybe people are 
interested.  Then again, maybe they aren't.