Cannibals and their gruesome stories

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5. Tarrare

Disowned by his parents because he ate everything in the house including the pets

He started in his 20s as an opening act for a charlatan eating corks and stones, his unuasual ability attracted the attention of the government who took him in to conduct experiments. He was known to eat a cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and at the hospital during treatment to cure his appetite he would sneak out to drink the blood of other patients, and ransacked the corpses in the morgue.

6. Leonarda Cianciulli

Turned the remains of victims into soap and food

When her oldest son Giuseppe was asked to enlist in the Italian Army, she decided that the only way to keep him safe was to conduct human sacrifices. She planned the murder of three women, used the bodies of her victims to make soap and their blood to make crunchy tea-cakes and is known as 'The Soap-Maker Of Correggio'

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