54 | The Human Leopard Society: Cannonball Cannibals

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
You land on the shore of northwestern Africa, hungry and
tired from a long voyage headed West.
You go out into the bushes to find some food and a good bit
from the shore. You happen upon an almost walled
area with bushes and say this seems like a good place to camp
for the night and get some food.The trees around you are heavy

(00:22):
and you find yourself in the middle of an opening of trees.
The air is stale with blood. And you see piles of bones near
where a fire was. You get freaked out and you
slowly back out of the opening and you start hearing hoots and
howls around you as you feel powerless to move.
You feel the blades slide right into your back, just between

(00:44):
your shoulder blade and spine. You fall to your knees as the
fire starts crackling, and the last thing you see before your
eyes close for good is leopard spots.
I didn't see you there. Something big is going on here.
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True story. It's basically like one day you
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Blackout report. See you on the other side.
Grandma's house. If they tried to do that to me,

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my scoliosis would keep me alive.
They'd be like, throw your spine.
And then my spine would be like psych.
I'm all over the place, bitch. Can't get me.
To the left. That to the right.
My my spinal basically just grabit and break it off and spit it
out. Welcome to the Black Cat Report

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Episode 54. Today we're going to go into the
Human Leopard Society. Woo Woo, Leopard.
Yeah, Yep. So it's about it's gonna be
about cute, cute animals and. Sweet little kitties potted.
Kitty cats, sweet little kitties, potted.
Little kitties. Has nothing to do with
cannonball month. No, not.

(02:08):
Cannonball Month. I'm Joey, and with me is Gil.
Hello, Hello and Selena. Hello.
That's based on a much needed rest month and our second
installment of Cannibal Month. We are digging into the Human
Leopard Society. We'll be using the Human Leopard

(02:30):
Society Ritual Murder and Cannibalism in Colonial Africa
by KJ Baity as our main source, and also the other sources will
be listed in the show, notes Hill.
Yeah, so. Today we're going to start with
a bit of African and colonizing history, and sorry if this is

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going to be a bit boring for some, but to truly understand
some of the goings on of the human leopard society, we're
going to have to delve into the history of Sierra Leone.
I was not saying Boo to history.I was saying Boo colonialism.
For sure. Yeah, for sure.
OK. So I was saying I was thinking
Buddha history like how dare? Things have happened in the.

(03:11):
Past of A podcast that is talking about past events.
Introduce us to history. How dare you?
Let's go Joey. Sierra Leone.
I was going to say I take it a step further and I'm just mad
that things have happened in thepast at all.
Just Buddha history at all. Okay anyway, let's go, Buddha

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history. Buddha history Sierra Leone was
first inhabited by the Limba tribe.
Who moved into the area and it were an indigenous African tribe
of at least 2500 years ago. And as far as hamburgers goes,
if you eat one hamburger every 5minutes, that would be
262,974,600 hamburgers, which actually don't believe existed

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at the time because hamburgers were invented sometime in
between 1885 and 1904 depending on who you believe.
In the time before hamburgers? Yep, that's.
Just what the government wants you to believe.
All the rich people were eating hamburgers way before us.
Could be in Hamburg. Today.

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But I digress. Sierra Leone had dense
rainforests that isolated it from a lot of the other wars and
the jihads of the times. So this would become more of a
safe space for people wanting toescape violence.
Well, let's Fast forward a good bit.
We'll land in 1787. This is the year.

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That Great Britain colonized Sierra Leone.
Though they had set up forts along the coast at the end of
the prior century. It was mostly people who were
former slaves in Britain that arrived in the Lust Jungle, and
other groups followed them from Nova Scotia in 1792 and Jamaica
in the 1800s. That was pretty much right after

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Jamaica had a slave rebellion and they all kind of like, let's
get the hell out of Jamaica right now, so.
So run alongside the slave rebellions, Britain passed a law
to stop the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, which is actually
interesting because a lot of people think it kept going until
the 1860s. But Britain actually stopped it

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much earlier than the United States did.
It was in Sierra Leone that the British created a major Fort and
the newly minted Freetown to patrol the African coast to stop
illegal slavers and. We'll get into the details of
how the British government worked with the many tribes in
Sierra Lana as we delve into theHuman Leopard Society cases.

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For now we'll leave it at that. Suffice to say the Britain had a
huge hand in the view of the Human Leopard Society and how we
will cover them today. But we will also leave some
things open to interpretation because obviously a lot of this
is written from a British perspective because we don't
really have a. A African perspective or Sierra

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Leone or tribe perspective of this right now, so.
God damn white people. Right, white history, as they
say. Sounds about white.
Sounds about white. So the Human Leopard Society was
first mentioned by a British author named George Alexander
Lethridge Bainberry in his book Sierra Leone, or as most people

(06:26):
call it, the white man's grave. I'm intrigued, which I yeah,
Which I guess you can tell from this point of view where this
viewpoint could probably be a little skewed.
Yeah, white guys like, hey, I don't like that.
Yeah, yeah. I don't like I see.
Something what I've seen is that's a little funny over

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there. I don't know about that.
In it, so he writes, secret cannibalism is also prevalent.
And in the Mindy mission they possessed the skin of a large
leopard with iron claw. Pretty much look like guys
dressed as leopards is what he saw with iron claws with iron

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claws. Super easy, yeah?
So it's Wolverine with a leopardsuit.
Literally. That's what.
I'm picture that is what it is. Yeah, so there are also.
Illustrated issue of Wolverine. Yeah.
There are also numerous reports and cases of the Human Leopard
Society described by the Tenme and the Mindy tribes, who were

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the major tribes in Sierra Leoneat the time.
To really understand some of thecontributing factors to the rise
of cannibalism in Sierra Leone, we have to get into the
background of another secret Society of Sierra Leone.
So there's a lot of secret societies and quotations because
obviously they're. Kind of secret.
Kind of not. They're just more secret to, you

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know, the colonizing British at the time.
Yeah, that's like in reality TV's where they're like, let's
form an alliance and they're like, it's a secret and
everyone's like, hey, you guys talking about making alliances?
Yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot of these, you
know, societies that formed around this time were pretty
much to escape the slave trade, going out into the woods to get

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out of the way, so. Tribes like, and a lot of times
in this point, you know, the British were coming in, the
Dutch were coming in and this, this area, the Dutch were
actually the first people to to go into Sierra Leone.
So they, they've went there and saw it.
We're like, OK, this is crazy, we're not going to go here.
And then the Spanish came, and then the Spanish came and

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they're like, OK, we'll name it,you know, Sierra Leone is the
mountain of the lion, Mountain Lion, basically because the
mountains look like lions. Is was like a what they said so
Sierra Leone. Creative.
Very creative. Or there was a cool one that
said that the ocean hitting the rocks made it sound like lions

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roars, which I thought damn was pretty cool that is.
Cool. I do appreciate the cat related
mythology. I got to keep it on.
Brands. Yeah, I respect that.
The clouds look like lions. The water sounded like lions.
The raindrops kittens purring. Pretty much.

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And the lions, they look like clouds.
They do. Fascinating.
Fascinating. So the PORO or poro just depends
on how you want to say it. I haven't found the right
pronunciation, so I will say poro as I can see it pronounced
online. So the Poro were a secret

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society that educated the natives of Sierra Leone
hinterland, which is like near the mountains until the British
government took over. So during the slave trades
heyday many people would go to places in the jungles to escape
in quotations the head man's reach.
Basically any tribe that tribal leader or British leader that

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would go in and actually try to enslave other tribes in the
areas to sell them to slavers. So.
These people, basically fleeing the slavers, who are sometimes
their own chieftains, would formmutual support groups for each
other and thus create quotationssecret societies.
So as their numbers increased, the fleers would make signs of

(10:31):
recognition and rules of generalguidance to be followed by the
society. You know you'd walk by somebody
that was part of the society, give them like a little.
You know, not. Or a little salute or something
or whatever the case may be, throw them up a little sign that
they that we're part of the we're part of the mutual
society. So during this time the Poro

(10:52):
came into being and honestly I can definitely understand this
because they were simply runningfrom being slaves.
Like it makes so much sense. Well.
With the. What they do, Joey?
What they do, they just ran awayto form form other colonies and

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they were just like, we don't wedon't need to be with you.
Yeah, so with the tribes constantly warring each other
and trying to take the other side of slaves to make money, I
would run to the woods too. Well, the Poro situated
themselves in enclosures in the woods that were marked by them
as like sacred. So if anybody that was not part

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of the society ventured into thesacred areas, they would just be
snatched up and mostly were never seen again.
Okay. Yeah.
The few that actually made it out years later became poorer
themselves. So yeah, they would just be kind
of and, you know, indoctrinated in a way that they were like,

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okay, well. I imagine honestly that it was
it was not really a choice that they had of leaving without
becoming a Poro so. So we had like, spots in the
woods where it didn't matter whothe fuck you were unless you
were a member of the Poro, right?
And it's like if he went in there, then it was like, then he

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would just come out like 5-6, seven years later, like straight
up, like Apocalypse Now, Just like.
Taken into the struggle, if thatmakes sense.
Yeah, pretty much. Just with like the eyes that the
the 10,000 yard stare. Pretty much.
Oh, OK Better, better. Better vision care.
Pretty right. Better eye care plan.

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They had. A great.
Eye plan? Yeah.
So they wouldn't just take people who ventured into their
woods either. They would actually go into the
surrounding towns at night and steal what they could, as well
as taking any unarmed person they could find.
So not a lot is known about whathappened to the people they
kidnapped, but a lot of people theorize that they sold those

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people into slavery. Oh my gosh.
So that's all. So you would know the PORO
because they had, they had markings, so they had two
parallel tattooed lines around the middle of their body
inclining upwards and front towards the breast.

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And meeting at the pit of their stomach, which is kind of
interesting. So people would know that
they're poro by just what they're the markings that they
had. They would also, which I thought
was interesting, like you were saying they had good eye care.
They also had good retirement. So they would be able to retire
after they got tired of life living in the Bush in the town

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surrounding it. The Poro would actually be able
to go into the towns and tribes and they could just.
Stay there. They could retire.
This was in, like, at what? Like 1810 at this point, 1810?
Eighteen 20s? Yeah, 18.

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Like, at the very eighteen, early is a holy fucking yeah,
pretty crazy. So First off, they had tattoos,
right? They had a great healthcare
system. And they had great retirement
plans. 1800s. Okay, okay.
I'm here for starting off good, right?

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Yeah. No, I cannot possibly see what
could go wrong here. Right, so the Poro, weirdly
enough, actually they held greatsway in the towns and tribes
surrounding them, as they would meet together to discuss and
solve disputes between rival towns or even crimes that would
call for capital punishment. You know, they would be
basically kind of like judges orlike, they would be like, hey,

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let's meet together, let's talk The Chieftains from each town
would say, hey, like we we need to, you know, people are
stealing people from ours, stealing people theirs, like or
somebody threw a rock at my daughter, blah, blah, blah,
let's go talk about it. Something like that.
You know, and they would get together, get everyone together,
talk about it and kind of decidewhat should be the next plan.

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But it was a little bit awkward when they came into town and
like, one of them would just be like, sprinkling salts on one
person's leg and the other one be sprinkling pepper on the
other person's leg. And they'd be like, I think it's
better with salt. I think it's better with pepper.
And the guy's like, wait, why what?
Salt. Pepper, what?
And then everybody would start to back off.
And that's how the law was laid down.
Pretty much, yeah. And I would probably say more

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like a. A nice sweet baby raise would be
really good, but you know that'shasn't been, you know, they
hadn't got to that. Yet.
Or like a harissa oil. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So well, like most societies, this time as leaders it was for
sadly, men only There there actually was a thing for for

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women of that time too. And it was very it was like the
para ran parallel to the poro and it basically.
Did the opposite. But obviously it was the general
gender norms at the time for theman to go out and be like the
warrior or the leader. And the woman obviously would be
taught in that day to be like the mother, the gatherer, stuff

(16:17):
like that. So like they had another
society. Can't exactly remember what the
name of it is, kind of mention it very quickly.
But that kind of ran parallel for the young women of the
tribes, which was they wanted totrain them both, I guess so.
They would take boys from the town starting at the age of 7
all the way up until 20, and they would be separated into

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three different classes. So the messenger or the servant
class, the Mohammedin more Or they call them or we call them
the devil's men's class and thenthe chiefs class.
So for me, I look at this now and say this is a basic makeup
of a caste system. The workers, the warriors and

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the political leaders are basically what it is, right?
Yeah. So when they were put into their
class, they could never go abovethat class.
They literally learned what to do.
They would go to a farm, they would be put into, like military
training, and they would be educated in whatever they were
meant to do. The Chiefs class basically ruled

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the entire country, as we said earlier.
The Poro was basically the education system, the government
and the court system of the country at the time.
Not a good look. So this would be the way the
country was run until the British arrived to colonize.

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Boo. As they do pretty much, so I
wanted to introduce you to the PORO.
Because from what I learned, I think this is where the Human
Leopard Society came from. Before the British arrived, it
was not customary for the for the Poro to cannibalize humans,

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at least from all the stories passed down by the tribe
surrounding them. From everything I've read, the
connection between the Poro and the Human Leopard Society is
that not all Poro are part of the Leopard Society, but all
Leopard Society are Poro. Yeah, so you couldn't be part of

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the Leopard's aside without being pooro, which is a very
interesting, very interesting thing.
And there's a lot of connectionswith a lot of the things that
happen later on in other countries with the indigenous
tribes, with the slaves going from the in the transatlantic
slave trade and how it affects the rest of the world and the

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religions. So honestly.
I want to start by saying that we don't have a whole lot of
information about the Human Leopard Society before the
British arrived and what we but what we do know is described in
detail through the trial transcripts of the British
court. And we know one thing about

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trials transcripts is they are exhaustingly detailed and
honestly severely boring. Incredibly accurate and
incredibly accurate. But before we get into some of
those details and descriptions of those, I want to go into how
the Poro and the towns before dealt with crimes.
So and sorry guys if I'm losing you in this, but these are

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incredibly important things to go on later to describe why we
understand what we do about the human Leopard Society, so the
Tongo players. Were the ones that were called
upon once this right. They're called upon when the
suspicious circumstances, such as frequent sudden deaths or
basically a lot of disappearances happening.

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They're basically the FBI, yeah.Yeah, how you doing?
I'm one of the tango players. What's happening here?
Yeah, there's just a constant snap going on.
In the background. And they're moving their head
from side to side, just back andforth to the Beat Tango players

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there, the FBI at the time, as well as the jury and the
executioners. Okay, very efficient, very
efficient. So you can move quickly and
fair. You always want those three
combined. Always.
Always so. I imagine it as a big monster

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with three hands, one with a pen, one with a gavel and the
other with a gun, and they're all part of the same body.
Yeah, when I'm fighting or pleading my case, I just want to
get shot in the head. Pretty much that's what they're
about to do in, in a moral way, I guess.

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For them, so. I'm brown.
They would have found a reason. Once that, well, these are
actually the the Tongo players are actually part of African
culture. They are the they were the
leaders before the British game so.
Well, maybe I'm not. Would call themselves the Tongo
players. Do you really think the British

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would call themselves the Tongo Players?
No, that is way too cool of a name for British people.
They're going to be like this weirdo.
Some tan white person. The High Queens Archduke, Left
hand of right Hand of Christ, Lawyers.
That's a snappy one, no? Yeah, they were very cut and dry

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on everything that they did. Pretty much, Yeah.
It was British people, you know.We love you, but pretty dry.
We're going to pretend my last name's Matt Bentley and we're
going to continue. Nowadays, nowadays all the ones
listening. So thank you.
Yes, thank you guys. So.

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I don't like any of them. Wow, truth.
Once the chief has requested help, they would send out
emissaries into the towns to investigate the claims.
They would hire spies in the said village who would get
details and then draw up a list of names on who they thought the
perpetrator was. So once the names were submitted

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to the medicine men who are alsopart of the Tongo players, they
would take each suspected personout to the Bush.
So basically where the where thethat they would meet out in the
bushes. So there the medicine man would
have the suspect put his hand into a cauldron of boying

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boiling oil to pick out a piece of hot iron if the person was
burned. It was certain proof of guilt
and if they were not, they were innocent.
Well. Okay.
Yep. The guy that's made out of
rubber is totally probably the luckiest guy there.

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Yeah. Still somehow more humane than.
Tying women to boards and throwing them off the edge of a
Cliff and being like, well, if they float, they're totally and
there's like. They're not.
There's not even water. What do you mean if they float,
like if they fly into the sky? So this is a Walmart parking

(23:32):
lot. I mean, it'll get worse.
So I honestly wonder if anyone was ever proven to be innocent,
because they pretty much just all burn their arms.
But. Ouch right?
Or if they were, they just have their olds their skin melted off
pretty much for putting in a boiling oil and then grabbing a

(23:53):
metal piece hot metal piece of iron that literally is hot oil
covered in hot oil. If they came out with no skin,
they're still going to be like you've got burned, even if you
don't say early. Now this.
I already had this burn, but like how?

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Wait hold on SO. God man, I just.
I missed the day. I was never alive for it.
But I missed the day when like, cauldrons were like, just
readily available. I don't remember the last time
I've seen like a cauldron. You know what I mean?
When's the last time you saw like an actual, like, Christmas
bulb shape? Like large, like cast iron

(24:36):
cauldron that just has some shitboiling in it and like, and you
know, and you just carry that shit out to the woods with
scraps of metal in it. They're like, all right, stick
your hand in it. Nope.
Nip, just go ahead and stick your hand in it.
And they're like, I don't, I don't want to stick your hand in
it. And I I don't want to stick my
hand in it like that used to be.Could you imagine me at five
years old just walking by a Bushsomeday and just like, stick

(24:58):
your hand in it. I don't want to stick my hand in
it. Stick your hand in it.
It's going to hurt. Stick your hand in it.
I'm like, it's like I'm just going to keep walking.
I don't know better times. Yeah.
I mean, not in a movie. Probably never.
I don't think I've ever seen a real cauldron in real life.
Yeah. And my mom's a rich.

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I've still never seen a cauldron.
Yeah. Better days, like you said.
Well, once they were proven guilty, they were detained and
then after a period of time theywould make up an excuse and they
would burn them to death. Yeah, it got worse.

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Yeah, so they did the same thingwith the witches, so.
Yeah, they did. They just added an extra step I
guess. They they, at least.
Only they brought. Yeah, they like first we.
Want to burn you? We would like to maim you.
And then we'll kill you. But first, let's think of how we
can kill you while maiming you. Yeah, we're.

(26:01):
Going to maim you and name you. Let's go, yeah.
Well, even sometimes they would make the suspect is why they got
the name help perform plays. And have them dance around while
dressing them with leopard printpretty much everything They were
like in leopard print loincloths, leopard print like

(26:21):
helmets, leopard print backs, and they would like have leopard
print like props around them. God damn, Cheetah Girls, Cheetah
Sisters. It's.
Got It's got real kinky real fast.
It did. And once the headman, the
headman was tired of dancing andwatching, he would rush up to

(26:44):
the criminal and then basically beat them so close to death,
rush him away and burn him to death, always ending and burn
him to death. Jesus Christ.
God damn, yeah. Was this a?
Was this a regular thing? This like as in like once a
month or once a week? Two times?

(27:05):
It just depends on it. Like how?
How? If they had time, did it
accelerate? It did once it it did accelerate
depending on the month, because the the human leopard society
and parts of the areas would only be able to like work parts

(27:25):
of the month or parts of the year.
So I think it was like November to April that they could, they
basically went out and the Leopard Society was very similar
because they went out only in those months for some reason.
I honestly don't know why they did Okay.
So yeah, it's. Basically everything.

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It makes as much sense as anything else in the world, so
I'm not going to question there's a. 100% So basically
everything once proven guilty would have the end up burned to
death. It didn't matter.
They all the end. Which is normal, right?
Guilty meant that your hand burnt when it was stuck into a
boiling cauldron. Like that was guilty.

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So once your hand was burned in a boiling hot cauldron.
Then you were guilty and but it was only between November and
April. Yeah, yeah, it was very weird.
So once the British came in, they decided to put a stop to
this as they couldn't investigate any of the murders
or prove innocence or guilt in any of the cases because, well,

(28:35):
most of the witnesses or the suspects were dead before they
could get there. Oh my gosh.
Nobody wanted to admit to going to that.
Play It was, it's true, like, itwas a terrible play, too.
I mean, like they didn't even get real actors.
They were just terrible, you know, the reviews.
Were really bad dress rehearsal.There's no dress rehearsal.

(28:56):
We're going to reenact Shakespeare in love.
Right. They just couldn't get the
soliloquies down and I feel likethat really ruined the play and
I honestly, I think that could have saved their lives.
Soliloquies. More like silly liliquies.
Because they didn't do a good job.
And they didn't. Yeah.

(29:16):
No. And then they got burned to
death. Well, in 1903 they made a law
that the tango players were illegal, I know.
And. And anybody who attended or
presided over one would be arrested. 1903, is that what you

(29:38):
just said? So this is after like 100 years?
Yeah. Yeah.
So after 100 years, like, all right, we give up investigating.
You're illegal now if you boil people's hands, force them to
act in some very strange play dressed as a leopard with
leopard paraphernalia, and then kill them on top of a fire, you

(30:02):
can stop doing that. I would like to point out that
they did not boil their hands, they've deep fried them.
Yes, yes. That's worse, I think.
OK, so now it's 1903 Wright Brothers, balsa wood pay.
French fries. In the air.

(30:23):
Shit just happened. Kitty Hawk, NC Shit's popping
off, you know what I'm saying? French fries everywhere.
What the fuck is popcorn? Give me some of that.
And then now. It's illegal to deep fry
someone's hands and force them into a really terrible play and
then kill them well. There goes so.
The Brits are laying down the law.

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Yep. Yeah, okay.
Yeah. So it is crazy that it's 1903
and it takes that long, so. They made it illegal for anybody
who attended or presided over 1.They'd be arrested, blah blah
blah. And to make it easier to
prosecute the Leopard Society, in 1895 the British made another

(31:06):
law that said if you had a leopard skin you could use to
make a human look like a leopard.
Any weapon that look like claws or Bora FEMA.
That you could be put in jail and prosecuted to the extent of
the law. Now I will explain or FEMA
later, but yes, actually you know what?

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I'll explain it right now because I know you haven't heard
the word before. So yes, unless you've studied
the exact subject, well, abor FEMA is basically a tight bound
up leather package that containsthe white of an egg and starting
out. Pretty yummy, right?
The blood of a chicken. Blood of a cock.

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A chicken. Not the humankind.
A few grains of rice. Did you say a chicken?
Not the humankind? Yes.
OK, keep going. OK, so we got an egg, a cock and
some rice. And well, this is the humankind,
blood fat and other human body parts, so there could be an

(32:12):
actual cock in there, Who knows,you know, there.
I was just making the differencebetween the two I just.
Don't want the chicken to be lonely?
Yeah. And this was this, this, this
was all inside of a leather sack.
Yeah. Yep.
Right. Yeah.
Okay. And that was Bora.
FEMA. Bora.
FEMA. So and.
What was that supposed to be? And the Leopard Society's eyes,

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this was used as medicine. It was used as like an all
powerful instrument. And I'm going to bring it back
to something that some other, some people probably know about
and now you've heard about in a ungunga, which was.
In. Santeria, yeah, as the form of
voodoo or hoodoo. And I believe from this

(32:54):
research, I think that Santeria was started by Southwest African
slaves that were taken to Cuba and the boy FEMA basically gave
birth to the ungunga and I think.
If you look more into the AdolfoConstanza, you get to see more
about it because that was about later the time that it added to
it. So I I made some connections

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between the two by researching into it in the time periods.
And I think that that was the beginning of Santeria's
basically their beliefs, how they got some of the stuff with
the Anganga and one of the rootsof it, yeah.
And. As I said earlier, there's a lot
of roots happening in this area that kind of spread out
worldwide to some of the other religions.

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That makes sense. Well, yeah.
Well, the Borfima was stated that it would provide good luck,
make you rich and powerful. It would also help you win cases
in the British court system. Just kind of interesting
perspective on it is that they actually thought that this this

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thing would help them. So eventually the user would
find out that slowly over time, the riches weren't as promised
and they would lose cases. So the primary goal of the
leopard society would be to continually fill this with new
blood and pieces of flesh to continue feeding it, just like

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the Ungonga. It was continually hungry for
our blood and this is going to lead us to our first real four
way, I said four way. You did.
I was a little confused where this is going here 2.

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Or three of us. Here it was.
Well, there's also the listener,So there you go.
You're coming with us into our first.
This is our four way. Freudian slip there.
Indeed. So this is our first foray into
the Leopard Societies, murders and subsequent cannibalism.

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The first qualified case againstthe Leopard Society was called
the Kale Case. So in.
God, hipster. Hipster.
Hippies. Hippies.
So in 1912 in I this name of this this village is is
surpassing me, but it's Babang Bama.

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BBAN GB AM a so I'm sorry if I got that wrong.
I most likely did so. This was in the heart of the
Mindy tribe country. So one boy named Kalfala was
murdered. He's about 14 years old and this
was in the middle of a village called Kale Hipster Town.

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So three men were accused of murder as we've described
earlier. Young boys were put into the
Boro Bush to be put into their classes and then be educated. 4
boys were in the Bush at this point being trained in farm
work. So the father of Kalfala and two

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other men asked the boys to sleep outside for the night,
which was actually against the custom and the law of the
tribes. But of course because they were
young and they wanted to please,they did as they were told.
The boys went to sleep that night outside, and during the
night they're awakened by a loudnoise.

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They saw one man holding Calfalla by the legs and
another, who had leopard skin hanging down His back, was
bending over the body and they could tell that their friend was
dead. That's fucking horrifying.
Yeah, yeah, out. Because they're out in the
middle, almost of nowhere. That is fucking horrifying.

(36:53):
I don't care what I don't. If you woke up and like anybody
is holding another human being up in the air by their legs,
right? And another person is dressed
with fucking leopard skin hanging off of them like.
And hang over the dead body, like just leaning over the dead

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body and you wake up and you can't say anything.
You can't do anything because ifyou bring attention to yourself,
your necks. Yep, you know, and and if at
that point you wake up, you could still think they're
actually leopards to be fair. And so you actually, like got a
got awoke, you know, and you could think of your neck.
So, well, the boys, they raised an alarm, you know, they

(37:37):
basically yelled out and they went to get help.
And so, obviously, the people wearing leopard skin, the men
ran away. Well, not too long after this
the father of Kalfala returned and started to show grief.
And soon after a few of his friends showed up with a number

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of other men, and they assisted in carrying the boy's body to
the poro Bush and then consultedtogether on what to do with the
body. So they're basically just going
back and forth. What should we do to the body?
Should we tell the parents? Should we or should we tell the
mother? Should we tell, you know, like
the town? Well, they then buried the body

(38:23):
very, very quickly after the consultation and then threatened
the other boys. If they would speak of it, then
something bad would happen to them.
This seems totally normal and totally OK.
It is. And if they were asked, you

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know, somebody asked basically, have you seen little Cafala And
they would be bitten. They would say you're bitten by
a snake and he died. So they said the kid basically
got bit by a snake and died. At this point during the trial,
some of the information of the Leopard Society's practices got

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out because a few. Of the leopard societies, people
kind of flipped because they kind of had like kind of an
attack of conscious. So two of the former leopard
society people basically came out and said what they had done.
So the leopard society would join together and discuss how

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they could best feed their borfima, which we mentioned
earlier. And to properly feed the borfima
it would need to be by murder the person.
Mirror the person or people who were selected to provide pretty
much the sacrifice would be given four days to bring in the

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body. The meeting to sacrifice usually
was with a quick walking distance of the leopard society
you know and the poro Bush whichat that night Calfalo was right
near damn and once the ceremony was started.
The members of the Leopard Society would bleed the person

(40:10):
and fill up their bar FEMA and then they would cut up the
pieces of the body and flesh andwould eat it however they liked.
Medium rare. So you're saying that the guy's
father was part of the group of people that killed him?
God damn. Damn well take from.

(40:35):
From Joey, all right. It's true.
Well, well, at least from the story's point of view.
I I do personally think some of these are true.
I don't think everything that they wrote down or everyone that
was accused was part of it. But I do think that some of
these people did practice this. So the three men who were

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accused were eventually found guilty of the murder.
The main pieces of evidence didn't work.
Yeah, the main pieces of evidence were that the boy had
puncture marks in his neck. Consistent of that with a sharp
weapon. Or as I write into it, is that
there were three puncture woundsthat look like a fake leopard

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claw, a metal claw that they used, which is exactly what the
Leopard Society used. So that's crazy.
The boys had also heard a numberof pattering feet running away.
After they had like yelled and tried to get help.
So to me that says there was a lot more than three there, but

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they could only physically provethere was three people there.
So what I surmised from this is that the ritual murder had taken
place but they didn't have enough time to get the body away
from the other boys to prepare the feast so.
The three men, including the father of boy of the boy, were

(41:58):
found guilty of the murder and being part of the Human Leopard
Society. God damn it, Arrow, I told you
we shouldn't use a crock pot. Did they use a leopard pot?
Like dig up the body? Like really quickly right after?
They don't know what happened tothe body.
Or whatever. I don't know what actually

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happened to the body. It didn't mention it, I imagine
that. They probably might have moved
the body just so that the British colonial government
didn't come in and try to find it out.
Or the the mother, honestly, because she didn't even know
until I think weeks. Once they actually went to start
to go to trial, she didn't even know for weeks that he was

(42:42):
murdered. She kept thinking it was because
he was bitten by a snake, so shejust didn't know and the whole
town. Was intimidated by these people,
obviously, so they could. They didn't really want to say
much, but the former Leopard Society people gave them the
information and the other boys gave them their take on what

(43:04):
happened that night and they decided that they were guilty.
All three were well. Two of the accused were found
that they actually killed the boy and they were sentenced to
death. The boy's father, however.
Was found out that he didn't have.
He didn't actually murder the boy, but he was in conspiracy to

(43:27):
murder the boy. So he was just sentenced to life
in prison. But life in prison there was
probably pretty much just amounting to death, honestly.
They found out later that the father was one of the leaders of
the Leopard Society. Oh my goodness.

(43:47):
I am Papa Leopard. And what's really what's really
crazy is that almost all the victims of the leopard societies
are family of people in the leopard society.
Again, it goes back to It's who you know, not what you know.

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I was just going to say like what if that's the reason they
have families because they're like, well, I have some like
such and such amount of children.
You know, like kids go missing, kids die.
But like, our little leather socks are forever.
Yeah, I mean, they wanted the power, honestly.

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They like the idea of the power that it gave them because they
thought it was the spirits were asking for this.
Just another part of what they like.
They pretty much wanted again like they're they wanted to fill
it up their their body, their spirits.
And they kept saying that the spirits were bringing them to
this, to these murders and that the spirits were telling them

(44:53):
who to murder which is even. So what, they're just like
carrying around a haunted omeletaround their necks?
Yes, pretty much, yeah. Yeah, with a bunch of blood.
That's ketchup. Yeah, do it.
No, just ketchup. Yeah.
What's that red thing on your onyour chest?
It's just a little ketchup. Just my little haunted sack of a

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you don't need to know. Yeah, need to know.
You don't need to know. So the next trial was one of the
most harrowing and really showedhow the Leopard Society worked
as a collective. So in this case, a young woman
named Minnie MINI. Was murdered in the town of

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Kabati in 1911. The Leopard Society held a
meeting with many. Many members also want to state
that this is not just like four or five people meeting in the
poor Bush. This is like 60 to 150 people
meeting. Holy shit.
Yeah. It's not like it's not like
small amounts of people and I think that that's something like

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this whole thing is like kind ofit.
It really impresses upon is likeit's not just. 3-4 people.
And it's not just people that are, you know, like the farmer
there. There are some farmers in this.
Most of them are chieftains. Most of them are the leaders of
the towns that are in the leopard society.

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This is like upwards of like a hundred 150 of like leaders of
entire villages and towns. Yeah, this is like if Freemasons
were getting together dressed asleopards, exactly like it.
So it just it just makes it crazier to think because like
this would honestly be like our Congress if they just dressed up

(46:45):
in leopard prints and went into the.
Some people literally believe this.
Joey, be careful. Sorry, we.
Don't. Have you heard of the lottery
and? They all went out for pizza.
The short story. The short story.
Restaurant in DC. That is a great short story.
I love that story well. There are three people who were

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tried for this murder as that's the only evidence the Crown
could put forward. And honestly, if they were
pretty much like nowadays is theprosecutor will only try to get
the people that are if they can believe they can get guilty, a
guilty charge for So if the Crown was very much like that in
the same way, just like we saw in the Steve Bonnett stories,

(47:29):
when they would just feel like we're only going to get you for
the charges, we can get you everything else, it doesn't
matter. I would just like to point out
that GAIL looks like little Nikki right now.
He does. The hair is perfect, or the guy
from or Gary Oldman from The Fifth Element.

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Paramount. Oh, true.
Yeah, with the hair over. Well, the Human Leopard Society
meeting started with Manny's uncle being elected the Mahin.
Which is the presiding officer of the meeting, basically the
leader of the meeting. So they took the role of
everyone there and then proceeded to get into the

(48:13):
business of why they met. Minnie's uncle told everyone
that the spirits had spoken to him, and unless they wanted bad
things to happen to them all, they had to give a sacrifice and
put blood in their borphyma. OK.
Yeah. He told them that they had four

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nights to set this up. Yeah, you can't argue with it.
They had four nights to set thisup.
Yeah, he's like, guys, we're going to die if we don't, so
let's do it. The Mahin then stated that he
had already set it up. He had the perfect sacrifice for
the spirits. His niece Minnie would be the

(49:00):
target. That's just rude.
Very rude. Like I said earlier they did,
yeah, they go after their families and and I don't
understand why. And I also don't know what many
did to them to get to get them so pissed off at her that it was
basically time for them just to murder her.

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But honestly? He, like, flashes back.
Yeah, he flashes back to like his first time holding her and
she just, like, shits her pants.It's like.
But she had like a smile on her face too.
I imagine. Yeah.
It was a mini shit fucker, but Ido.
I do real quick. All right, so we're getting into

(49:42):
the weeds on like some shit words like, Oh well, this is
calling for this and this is calling for this outside of
cultural context. You know, the county laws and
the state's laws call for da, da, da, DA, which meet with the
national laws, which means we need to.
Execute this person in this way and da da da da da, like we have

(50:03):
continued these things in a moredry, less spiritual sense, but
with just the same sounding kindof justifications, like the
people who have blah blah blah. And like, also I I do want to
point out, you know, technicallywith like the way common law
works, all of this shit, all these laws, especially around
executions and stuff have been voted on and approved.

(50:26):
Quote UN quote by our ancestors,right?
Because that's how our legal system works, at least like the
the common law legal system works is that we are enacting
the rules and policies of our ancestors.
So if you're coming in from another culture and you're
looking at the way we're doing it, we're saying and doing the

(50:47):
same shit. It's 100% the same shit.
So just want to point that out. It's the same.
It's funny and it's weird. Yeah, it's it's the exact same,
man. Yeah, and the jury's rigged and
like the judges, rigged. Just like it is here.
They're they're just as rigged. They're just as rigged the the

(51:10):
Crown is doing the same thing the Tongo players did honestly.
Like, they're not that much different in being like, oh,
you're innocent, You maybe we found this one piece evidence
that might have to deal with it or not.
But you're still guilty. And then putting their hand in
oil. The queen selected by God, who
selected the people that are acting on this process are

(51:35):
deciding this is just as ridiculous.
Okay. And we should make fun of that
too. That's all I'm saying, but.
Agreed, agreed. For the purpose of the story,
we'll settle into the narrative that we have.
Sadly, it's the only narrative we had.
I wish we had the other side, you know.
But I do think that what what really gives this something is

(51:58):
that they didn't murder and eat white people basically like they
didn't kill the colonizers and which is that there is something
that I'll get to later that I will say is it's it's a it's a
fun thing to talk about later. But it's a little bland, but
yeah. Yeah, they're just very blind

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well. Four days later, they met at the
appointed place near Minnie's uncle's house.
The Leopard's Society did. He had sequestered her in a
small room away from everyone else in the house before he
decided and went to the meeting to tell them so.
He already he already premeditated this before they

(52:40):
even had the first meeting. Oh.
My God. They then.
Had the house servant who was also forced into the society to
perform in quotation menial acts.
So they're basically their houseslave that they had.
They just were like, hey, you'reforced into doing this now

(53:02):
because we need you to do the The Dirty work, the hard work,
you know, while we're out here taking in what we want to so
boiling hands, boiling hands, sothe house servant, house slave.
Brought her outside and into thebushes that was surrounding the
house. There she met the men wearing

(53:23):
what else, leopard skin garb andher uncle.
Because she saw her uncle, she didn't scream.
She didn't think there is anything wrong, you know,
Perhaps she might have thought that they were going to initiate
her into the society. Does it say how old she was?
It doesn't. It says.

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What I can gather, I think she was like 1415.
She wasn't like she was a teenager.
So the the book also did say, I don't even know why I mentioned
this or how they knew it, but I think the uncle might have said
it too is that they said she waslike a little slow it.
That's just how they said it. And I felt that also it kind of

(54:07):
leads me to believe that she's just like she wasn't catching on
quickly enough and you know she.So all the leopard men didn't
think it was, yeah, didn't thinkit was going to happen.
And that's also I think why theychose her because I think that
like they thought she was like aas we can we do find out that
they they said she was like diseased.

(54:29):
They said she wasn't like, you know, their their style of
people basically it was really sad.
So well as she walked, one of the members walked up behind
her. And just like I mentioned in the
beginning of a of the episode, stabbed her right in the back,

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so four other members quickly rushed to her and carried her
into the next clearing. They then placed their borphyma
underneath her and slit her throat, spilling blood all over
the borphyma and them and thus in their eyes, satisfying the
spirits. If only she had scoliosis.

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She would have been saved. And this is where it gets
honestly, really, really disgusting.
And not that anything before disgusting.
Wait, and not that anything before I said here isn't
terrible in its own rights. So after this?

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After they killed basically killed their slitter throat and
they satisfied the spirits of the war, FEMA two men were
nominated to cut up her body. They first cut open her stomach
and removed her organs. They then cut off her breasts
and then gave them to the chiefsto eat.

(56:04):
Yep. CARF can.
Sorry guys, I know this is horrifying.
Please. Please, please stay with me till
the end and we won't go into anymore crazy things after this.
This will be the. Last I have shag Rug in the
studio. You can't make me throw up here.
This is never coming out. No.
They then cut off her finger andtoenails and just a finger the

(56:29):
the fingernails and toenails. Oh, OK, OK.
I thought it was like finger andall toenails, so it's like this
is getting incredibly specific. You know.
OK, so gotcha. Yeah, and then the scalp
containing the hair was given tothe uncle.

(56:50):
Nice hat. God damn it.
God damn it, Selena. OK.
So at. This point, all that's left on.
I really hope at this point it'sjust their corpse.
I hope they're not alive. Still, no, they were dead.
They were dead. They slipped.

(57:11):
OK, cool. She's dead.
Yeah, she's she's OK. She's been gone for a little
bit, Yeah. She's not still alive.
But the uncle actually wanted a hair transplant, and this was
the earliest form of hair transplant, so.
Yeah, no, I mean this is way cheaper than plugs, but.
He literally just saw her hair and was like.
Hey guys, I think it's time we kill someone.
I feel like the spirits are talking.

(57:33):
Do you guys get? That.
Time I'm getting that get. Feeling it, Yeah.
She has the most beautiful hair.I mean, she really.
She'd really. Spirits, just the spirits would
love. Her.
They really want her. So the rest of the members cut
the remaining pieces of the skinand organs, and they all feasted

(57:56):
upon the flesh. Some of them, like we described,
ate them raw and some of them cooked the flesh and ate it over
rice. And some of them used an air
fryer, yes, at #5 setting for 15minutes.

(58:22):
For all you cannibals out there,we you know Recipes for
Cannibals, our new book coming out.
Yeah, I believe, I believe we'relooking at mid-october for the
release of recipes for cannibals, yes.
Yeah, we have. Let's talk to management about
that first though. This this episode is brought to
you by Salt and Pepper Press. This whole scene in the book was

(58:47):
just so awful and because after all that happened, they did
searches. And all that was found after
this was the skull, which was thrown down an incline about 30
yards away, and the bones were picked clean and lying near the

(59:10):
feast. I also want.
To add to this before you say something, the skull was empty.
They ate her brains. That's the thing though, is
like, this is like the jungle ofthe jungle of the jungle in

(59:34):
motherfucking Africa, All right?You could throw I I'm not at
that, you know. I'm not an expert in this, but I
feel like you could just throw abody out there anywhere and
within like a week and a half it's picked clean.
You know, Like there is so much life that is just taken on every
single aspect of the. Let's just say dealing with dead

(59:58):
body process, right? That like shit's going to be
picked clean so damn fast. Like, I mean in America you got
to work for that shit. You got to get barrels of lime
and lie and. Other things that start with L
and you got to put them in it and turn it into a Jelly, and
then you got to turn on your garbage disposal for like 3 or 4

(01:00:20):
days over the Christmas or Thanksgiving holidays and hope
that your neighbors don't that way.
That's that's never mind. That was the other person we
covered. Yeah.
Yeah, a. Lot of those people are very
similar. Yes.
So, all right. Yeah, go figure.
Skull Skull is empty. Skull is empty, bones are still

(01:00:42):
there and after a few days an exhaustive search.
The bones of many were eventually found.
As well as their skull, the court could only find three men
worthy of prosecution for the basically what they assumed were
69 other men that had a part in this.

(01:01:03):
Holy shit. So.
Out of the three men that they had found worth your
prosecution, they only found oneof them guilty.
And if you can guess who it was,I'll give you a dollar.
Mini. It was the uncle.

(01:01:24):
The uncle is the only one that was found guilty.
And for everyone out there, I'm sorry you won't get a dollar.
The first one that got it was Selena.
She gets a dollar. So I'm sorry everyone out there.
I just probably ruined your day and I'm sorry.
No, I ruined your day cuz that'snot your daughter.
That's my fucking dollar. That's true.
That's Selena's dollar. Our lawyer is saying no.
He needs to add in this disclaimer immediately.

(01:01:46):
Yes. I'm so sorry to everyone out
there. We love you.
We believe in you. Please keep participating.
No purchase necessary to participate.
All right. Well, I mean you guys can send
us a dollar too, so you know, that would be great.
Or send Selena a bunch of dollars cuz she did it, so.
That's true. I did do it.
I mean, I deserve your money. She does.

(01:02:09):
He was tried, found guilty, and publicly executed in 1913.
Damn. So the uncle was the only one
found guilty and he was killed. So this is like a interesting
process of like literally somebody nominating their own
family member, but then then like they're also sacrificed in

(01:02:33):
the process over and over and over again.
Yeah, it does seem like there's always that one person and I'm
going to get into this later andI I we can kind of skip it for
now. But you're you're you're on the
right line there that if, yeah, you're on the right line there.
Well, so the British government presided over a lot of trials

(01:02:55):
between 1907 and 1913. So they investigated about 30
different murders. And though I would say this is
probably nowhere near the amountof how many people the human
leopard society actually killed and ate, just that's just how
many. The trials kind of led us into
the transcripts. You know, you can never be too

(01:03:15):
sure. You always want to just make
sure there's at least something to back them up.
So some 300 to 400 people were actually sought to be on trial
for these murders. But only 108 of them were
actually put to trial because that's how many people were
actually able to be proved that they could have done something

(01:03:35):
or been part of the murders. Many of them were high
chieftains or people who were inhigh positions of their tribes.
So it seems to me that the humanleopard Society basically became
somewhat of organized crime, like something of the mob bosses
of the late 1800s and early 1900s and New York, you know.

(01:03:56):
I feel like they had a very similar thing going on.
They comprise so much of the leadership of the local tribes
as well as they intimidated the locals into basically not
snitching on them for taking sacrifices for their brophyma.
The Leopard Society used a few methods to scare the people into
not cooperating with the British.

(01:04:16):
Besides the British being the colonizers, you know, a lot of
them were exslaves and people have been put into slavery by
the British. So I can honestly say, why would
you trust the police? Yeah, this is like bad if you're
in this situation where you're alocal but you're still having to
convince people not to snitch onyou to the goddamn British like

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you're fucking up real bad. If you need to convince other
people not to snitch on you to the goddamn.
Brits. Yeah, it it seems to me like
they're looking at it. The the.
The locals of the town are like,what's the lesser of two evils
right now? Is it someone that's stealing
our children and murdering them or is it someone that?

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Literally, society. Both of them did it, which is
funny. They both did the same thing.
And that's the horribleness about it, is that like,
literally they're in a rock and a hard place and there's nothing
they can do about this. So the Leopard Society would
come in. Kind of like the English, but

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they've made the members of the town Swearos over a medicine
called Tila. It's TI L-L AH.
And if a person breaks this oath, the medicine would catch
them and infect them with disease.
So this is what they believe. What happened to them, if they?
Told basically this lip. So, like, don't talk to the

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British. If you do, you made an oath, and
if you break this oath, you're going to be infected with the
disease. Kind of like when you like a
pledge in court, like and like part of your pledge is to God.
Like literally it's to God. Yeah.
Gotcha. And I love the semblances of a

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parody on each side of this happening.
Which just. It's it's horrible, but it's
great because like you could youjust see it with like how the
British are like, no, we're justfine upstanding people that came
in here and civilized all of you.
And then the Leopard Society waslike.
Look at their strange customs. Now pledge allegiance to the

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Queen and God and. God, and if you don't, will
murder you and put you into slavery.
Also, you can totally cut this, but like you said Tila, and it
gave me like a really hardcore flashback to like the early
2000s and Tila tequila. And then you were like, you make
a pact and if you do not follow that pact, you end up with a

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disease. And I was like Tila tequila.
Very similar to the TILA medicine that they were taking.
Well an example they made of thedisease catching people.
Was basically the leopard side. He pointed to a very few lepers

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that they had in each town and they would say, if you break
your oath, yeah, you will becomelike them.
So you will become a leopard, leopard, leopard, pretty much,
yeah. And so they also, they also used
a deity called Tenayahum. And again, sorry everyone, for

(01:07:31):
the pronunciations. I'm doing the best I can, yeah.
Hey man, we're doing the best wecan with our American school
system. Exactly.
And that literally meant to turnback to truth, which is kind of
funny. Yeah.
So basically their deity that they're telling them not to tell
the truth to the local authorities is tell is is named

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to turn your back to truth, which.
Such a great parody here. Yeah.
So they feared the poisons and the deities so much that most of
the time parents of the childrentaken and killed wouldn't even
tell on them. They just were like, well, you
killed my son, but I don't want to go to the British because I'm

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going to die. They're British, First off.
They're British. They're terrible because they
put us into slavery. Even though at this point.
I want to put in quotations Theyhad stopped the transatlantic
slave trade. Yeah, well, colonization wasn't
exactly great. Yeah, it was not.
And to be fair, who could blame them?

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Most of the times, also, The Chieftains were the ones that
were doing it. So The Chieftains of the tribes
were also the ones. So basically they're looking at
leadership on both sides of the aisle, and they're going well.
These people took all my relatives and took them to
America, put them in a slave trade.
And these people that were also our leaders that were us were

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taking kids out into the woods and basically eating them and
killing them. And so they're like they're just
in this horrible place. And it seems like almost every
time the people in the middle get get the shaft, the leopard
societies would kill. Their own kids and family.

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And those are the people who would bear the brunt of the
ritualistic sacrifice and cannibalism.
And this is so sad. Yeah, it's so sad.
Well, one of the witnesses in the trial was in the Leopard
Society, and he wasn't the leader at the time for the
night. The mahin he was, he was like

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second in charge. At that time.
So basically the leader at the time said, all right, we're
going to go out and we're going to choose somebody to sacrifice.
And he pointed at the second guyin charge and said we're going
to kill your son. Oh my.
God, for a second, he was just like any many mighty Mo catch a

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leopard by the time you. I mean, it was literally that's
what happened. And and part of this is I,
there's another, there's anotherlayer to this actually, because
the father, the people that theywould choose to kill, were
usually people who had just had good fortune come.
Upon them. Damn, because professional

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haters, society too. They believe that that that good
fortune would transfer to them. Hate.
Hate, hate, hate, hate. I mean, because they would
literally take their shit. Yeah.
I think I would be looked upon by God favorably.

(01:10:51):
Maybe I could get a flat screen TV when I take it from them,
yeah. Maybe.
Maybe when they die, they leave everything to me.
Maybe they didn't, and I take itanyway.
Whatever good fortune me. Yeah, pretty much.
So the father, the father, to his credit, was like.
No, I'm not going to kill my son.

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Unlike the uncle over there who was like, oh I'm throwing them
in the ring. This guy was like, no, I I don't
want you to kill my son like he just had something good happen
to him. We we're not going to sacrifice
him. Well of course the leader of the
society for that meeting said, well if you won't sacrifice him,
we're going to sacrifice you. And if it is found out your son

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is gone or it's hard to find. We're going to sacrifice both
you and your son. Wait, what?
Yeah. So basically, basically they're
like you need to make sure you don't hide your son from us to
like base to stop him from beingsacrificed.
You're if you do that, we're going to kill you and your son

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and we're going to sacrifice you.
So the ritualistic sacrifice waspretty prevalent and had such a
profound effect on the written laws of the country first.
To stave off the murders, they passed a law that you cannot
sleep outside and I think this is a very interesting law for
this area. It was basically set in place

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because of how easy it was for people sleeping outside to be
picked up and murdered. Damn, that's how prevalent this
was. They they.
Like I said earlier, like the boys weren't supposed to be
sleeping outside in the first story, the first trial, they
weren't supposed to be sleeping outside because it was against
the law. And that was the law because

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there were so many people getting picked up and murdered
and it was so much easier for these leopard men to come into
this, the town, take the boys, take the girls, whoever they
were going to sacrifice at that time, and just run away real
quickly after they stabbed him. Yeah, where it's like in that
case, like you were saying earlier when like this is all
like dark and it was night time and shit like that.

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Literally, a leopard might have done that.
Yeah. Quite literally, a leopard might
just grab your ass and pull you into the jungle like you're
like, you're done for, you know?But like, this is man, this is
fascinating as hell to me because, like, we try to look at
the the increased rate of like stories and news, especially

(01:13:23):
after like the Internet became more common and widespread and
easy to contribute to. And like the the fear.
That people like, built up over time.
Like, I really do feel like Art Bell was like kind of on the
front line of trying to, like, give a name to this.
He called that the Quickening, right?
Like, he said that, like, everything is speeding up.
You know, things are getting worse, things are getting blah,

(01:13:44):
blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, you know, there's more
death, more murders, more terrible stories.
I really do think that more people had access to to be able
to publish stories. To a larger audience at the
birth of the Internet, right? It was so easy to get small town
stories out and it was just happening so much, right?

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And I feel like that gave us theimpression at the time that
things were getting worse. But then you go back to, in this
case, Sierra alone, where like for a hundreds of years it's
been illegal to sleep outside because motherfuckers dressed as
leopards will come and kill yourass after sticking your hand in
boiling water. Or you know, any number of
different scenarios, you know, and it's like, have things

(01:14:28):
gotten worse or have things gotten better?
Leopard Society, 2024, That's what I was trying to say.
Yeah, for sure. Well, the second thing that
changed in laws because of the Leopard Society, the human
Leopard Society was called the Human Leopard Society Ordinance.
A little on the nose, but that'sthe British they're very dry.

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It was literally what they said.As I wanted to let you guys know
on the blackout report, Etsy, weare making haunted omelets to
hang around your neck. They're just 5499 each.
Yeah, don't buy them from Red Bubble.
Red Bubble already tried to steal that before we even edited
the show. And we use vegan human meat.

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Yeah, so we only use meat from human vegans.
Yes, only we are running. We're actually our our numbers
are growing I think so. Ethically harvested.
When we duct tape their mouths, they didn't.
They did. Well, we didn't know if they're
vegans because they couldn't tell us, but anyways.

(01:15:37):
They were eating vegetables. They wanted to be.
Part of something bigger than themselves.
And you know, we're in Ashevilleso everyone's on a spiritual
journey. So easy anyway.
We don't. We don't know if they're vegans,
as Joey was saying, but we did make sure to bring them to their
final rest. At the moment they were eating a

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vegetable. Which is a very strong
indication that they were vegans.
We just waited until they were taking a bite of broccoli and
just yes, yeah. Raw broccoli.
Too raw broccoli, so make sure to check out our Etsy.
Yes. So the Human Leopard Society
ordinance was basically, if anyone had any paraphernalia of

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the Leopard Society, so. If they had a large leopard
print thing, you know, basicallylike anyone from the 80s, giant
metal. Clutter.
Literally me in high school in my punk phase, had leopard print
somewhere at all times. At this time, you would have
been put in jail. So yeah, yeah, most. 80s metal

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bands were illegal at this. Point I made it.
Yeah, yeah. But they would be arrested and
and detained. You know, if they had, like you
said, they had the knuckles withthe the little puncture wounds,
the leopard claws. So I equate this to the charges
of owning a fixed blade knife longer than 4 inches or owning A

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switchblade knife that's over 2 inches.
Right now it's the same idea. Or having a bowl.
That and not having the weed, just having the bowl, can get
you arrested and put in paraphernalia.
Paraphernalia. Yeah, the same thing.
So, correct. It was basically put in place to
curtail the growing power of thehuman Leopard Society.

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But it also can't be overlooked.As I said earlier, the Human
Leopard Society provided blueprints for intimidation for
the mob. As well as the growing ritual
magic that made its way over to the new world, Santeria and
anything else. So basically a lot of this was
coming from Africa, coming from the Leopard Society, coming from

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the other societies in the area,which I'll mention in a minute.
The Leopard Society was the onlytrue proof society that lived
instead of the other ones, but they were court records showing
that there was a human baboon society.
Who would bite the necks of people to murder them while
wearing baboon? Skin butts.

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They just peanut their asses, bread and like, ran around.
Yeah, so there wasn't a lot of, like actual, want to say
evidence. There was one court transcript,
but they never, they weren't prove proven guilty of anything.
So I feel like this is kind of those other societies and and

(01:18:32):
there was an alligator society and they would hide out near the
rivers and then snare victims. I do think that you know it, you
can go a lot of ways with this, you know and and I think that
people just kind of try to take it overboard.
I don't think that some of theseother societies actually
existed. Maybe there was one or two
people. But there was they weren't to

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the to the amount of the Leopardsociety.
Leopard society had a lot of members and a lot of sway in the
areas. Yeah, I don't doubt the
existence of these other animals.
I only know that the evidence for the most part.
Animals, yeah. I don't doubt that this would be
true. They might exist, Not sure.

(01:19:15):
I'll get back to you on that. But I've never seen them so.
Make up your mind. Exactly, so I only know the
evidence. Full of holograms.
It's. True, nowadays, just like the
synthetic sun, which we will be doing an episode on, but that's
later. Just like the virtual aquarium I

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was, virtual reality aquarium I was trapped in for an hour.
Yes, yes. During ADHD screening, which is
a perfect example of going off the rails.
So what happened, Joey? Well, I only know the evidence
for the most part is on the sidethat there was an actual human
leopard society. They existed and they had eaten

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people a lot of. People.
Hell yes. So the Leopard Society of Sierra
Leone would go on to influence future leopard societies.
In the Congo, they were known asthe Anyoto.
I say it in that voice because that's what it looks like.
Yep. And more recent history, the
Agnoto were advised to actually have been more of freedom

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fighters trying to fight off therule of the Dutch than than
savages who ate the flesh of their victims.
So I think this is one thing we we can kind of look at is the
Agnoto, where in the 1940s I want to say is like the the time
period that they had but the theAgnoto in the beginning by the

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Dutch were said to be. Cannibals.
They're said to be fierce people.
They didn't care about people, but they were.
But that more recently was revised saying that they instead
weren't those type of people. They were just freedom fighters
trying to get rid of the Dutch. And I think that's cool.
Are you trying to say that at any point in time people call

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upon, like, cultural history andcultural icons when they're
trying to lead a large movement?No.
OK, cool. That's what I'm going to say.
I would delete our Spotify and the publishing of our show right
now, if you were saying that. Well, I do want to say that the
Leopard Society was in pop culture nowadays, and I can say

(01:21:30):
that with 100% certainty that the Leopard Society represented
more and more with the first being in Tarzan.
They can the Leopard Society of the Congo.
This was the Leopard Society of the Congo, the early ones that I
think the 1951 or whatever was they they they conveyed the

(01:21:52):
Leopard Society of the Congo is evil.
But again, we knew, we know now by more information coming out,
looking at it more accurately that they were not, they were
freedom fighters and they were actually more represented in the
Marvel movie. Black Panther Cheetah Girls.

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Which actually is based off a lot of the stories from the The
Leopard Society in the Congo. God damn.
Which is pretty. Cool.
We'd bring it back, but here we are bringing it back, bringing
it back by bringing it up. While the Anota was seemingly
good, I do think that the Leopard Society of Sierra Leone

(01:22:34):
were cannibals. They didn't prey on the invaders
of the OR the slavers like we had talked about.
They prayed on their own families to appease a God that,
well, most likely didn't exist. I feel like they started out on
a good path as people, you know,just trying to escape their
slavers going out as. Capable.

(01:22:56):
And then from there it went downhill.
It literally did, yes, as one does.
Yeah, trying to escape their slavers and then just turn down
a dark road and almost became what they feared and what they
hated the most. The slavers themselves.
Damn, they became the terrorizers of their own towns

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and for what reason? I honestly don't know, and it
seems like it'll just be lost tohistory.
Pretty sure it's because colonization is absolutely
terrible and it fucks with societies.
Sometimes you die a hero. Sometimes you live long enough
to see yourself become the villain.
And that could be what it was. I'm pretty sure y'all.

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There's actually a track record for this, which is like anti
colonial struggles actually completely cause massive
conflicts in societies because. The process of colonization push
people to the complete like brink.
And when societies or cultures grow up in a perpetual state of
violence, well then guess what? Communication through extreme
measures of violence actually seem more acceptable because the

(01:24:02):
baseline of terrible violence isjust normal everyday life.
So when we look back at it in a state of not being in that
extreme level of violence, we see it as super extreme, where
to them it was just kind of one step up.
Which is the only way you can conduct guerrilla warfare.
But that's just me and that's just every case of anti colonial

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struggle. Sorry, go ahead.
Yeah, I guess we'll never know. Thank you for listening to the
Black Cat Report and episode 54 on the Human Leopard Society.
Man, my stomach is grumbling. That was our second installment

(01:24:43):
in our July Cannibal Month series, and boy is it only going
to get worse from here. Next week we'll be peering into
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