DID THE MONGOLS FEAST ON THEIR ENEMIES

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The World Unexplained, a podcast that explores the unusual beliefs, conspiracies, customs, rituals,
and traditions from around the world. This is your host,
Doctor Carlos.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Did the Mongols actually eat their enemies? In some cases
they even said buried alive. The entire list could detail
the Mongol's elaborate and inventive execution techniques, but one is
particularly cruel, and this is the one of eating the
enemies when they were alive. Two of Genghis's Genghis cons
top general Subitai and Jibe, led an invasion through Georgia

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and run into into the Russian step. At the time,
the strongest regional power was a confederation of Russian princesses.
After the Mongols defeated the Russian forces at the Battle
of the Kalka River, several Russian princes surrendered for the Mongols.
Subsequent victory celebration, they erected a wooden platform for feasting,
but they also buried the still living Russian nobility underneath

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the platform. The ensuring celebration then sealed their fate. So
did they eat them no? Did they eat over them?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
The question was did they eat their enemies? And there
had been a lot of rumors about this in the past.
There is limited evidence to suggest the Mongols practice cannibalism, cannibalism,
or even regularly consumed the flesh of their enemies. It
is important to note that historical accounts of the Mongols
often portrayed them in a negative light, emphasizing their savagery

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and brutality. These depictions sometimes included exaggerated essensi sensilized claims,
of course, to scare their enemies a lot of times. However,
it is worth mentioning though, that during sieges and periods
of extreme scarcity, there have been sporadic instances throughout history
where desperate individuals or groups reswarded to cannibalism for survival.
These acts, however, should be seen as exceptional and not

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representative of the Mongols as a whole. Now eating over
the buried individuals who were buried alive, that's a different
scenario overall. While the Mongols were known for their military
conquest and fierce warfare, the claim that they regularly ate
through humans is not substantiated, but credible historical evidents