Arachne
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Cannibalism is one of many "darker" topics in history I'm really interested in. Hopefully it will be ok if I start threads about it sometimes since it is often entwined with mythology
I remember reading this story when I was a child, but I haven't been able to find it since. I'd like to see if anyone else has heard it before, or if they could give me a source to research it. The story went like this:
The first chief in Fiji was married to a beautiful princess, but she died while giving birth to twin girls. The father saw the girls as the reason his darling wife was dead, so as they grew up he abused them and made them into his slaves. When they came of age, however, a handsome young fisherman washed up on the shores of their island and began courting them.
The Fijian chief told the young man that he could have the girls if he killed an enormous shark, and he did this. He took the girls away from the island in his canoe, never to return. Furious, the chief swore a tabu saying that from now on, whenever a foreigner washes up on a Fijian shore he/she is to be eaten.
I remember reading this story when I was a child, but I haven't been able to find it since. I'd like to see if anyone else has heard it before, or if they could give me a source to research it. The story went like this:
The first chief in Fiji was married to a beautiful princess, but she died while giving birth to twin girls. The father saw the girls as the reason his darling wife was dead, so as they grew up he abused them and made them into his slaves. When they came of age, however, a handsome young fisherman washed up on the shores of their island and began courting them.
The Fijian chief told the young man that he could have the girls if he killed an enormous shark, and he did this. He took the girls away from the island in his canoe, never to return. Furious, the chief swore a tabu saying that from now on, whenever a foreigner washes up on a Fijian shore he/she is to be eaten.
