Indonesia, the Cannibal Nation
January 20, 2009
Julia Suryakusuma
DO you bite your nails? Believe it or not, that’s technically an act of ‘self-cannibalism’.
Yes, nail biting is (usually) harmless, but there are weirder forms of self-cannibalism, like eating your own hair, skin or blood, or forced self-cannibalism as a form of torture or war crime. In the 16th century, for example, Spa