Human Leopards an Account of the Trials of Human Leopards Before the Special Commission Court —— With a Note on Sierra Leone, Past and Present

----- 人类豹子在特别委员会法庭面前审计人类豹子的试验

ISBN: 9781331435969 出版年：2016 页码：219 K J Beatty Forgotten Books

Captain Beatty, just before leaving for the Dardanelles, asked me to write a preface. I think that the best preface will be to answer, as far as I am able, several questions which were frequently put to me on my return to civilization after the conclusion of the Special Commission Court. These questions were, What was the object of the Human Leopard Society? Were its members cannibals for the purpose of satisfying an appetite for human flesh, or was it some religious rite? Would the sentences inflicted by the Special Commission Court have the effect of stamping out the horrible practice?The first question can be answered with some confidence. The trend of the whole evidence showed that the prime object of the Human Leopard Society was to secure human fat wherewith to anoint the Borfima. The witnesses told us how the occasion of a murder is used to blood the Borfima, but the potency of this terrible fetish depends upon its being frequently supplied with human fat. Hence these murders.The question as to cannibalism it is not possible to answer with any degree of certainty.