FULL TEXT: Berlin, July 26. – The existence of cannibalism in Germany came to light in the recent trial of a widow named Kockeritz, who was sentenced to death for murdering her lover, mutilating the body, baking the heart of her victim and eating of it.
The woman confessed to the crime, saying that her actions
were in keeping with an old superstition, in which the eating of the heart of
the victim is supposed to prevent his spirit from returning and haunting the
murderer.
[“Murderess Eats Victim’s Heart – German Widow Confesses to
a Terrible time.” The Toronto Sunday World (Canada), Jul. 27, 1913, p. 12]
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