The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-04-19
AnthropophagY.

A young friend living in Mishieott has
sent us the following article, which he
translated for us from French newspaper
published in New York, the Courier des
Etats Unu. 1t is evidently one Of those
canards which the French papers so delight
in publishing and the French people evil
IDENTIFY so delight in reading, but viii be
found interesting:
"Our journals announce the arrest of a
young girl, aged eleven years, who had en-
deavored to take the life of her mother,
her sister, and several of her companions
with the intention of sucking their blood.
Subjected to an examination by men
skilled in various arts, they We're convinced
that she was attacked by strange and ter
rible mania of anthropophagy. One would
think that this peryersion of instinct and
feeling i'll her, of which the annals Of medi-
cine give more than few examples, could
be redressed.
This calls to mind the history of Ser
secretly left his casern to penetrate into the
cemeteries, where he deferred the recently
buried corpses to devour them.
4hIc LJuH " Joy Id0iCuiiy SAiS'A1 oho
in the regular lite into which he has re enter
ed, the episodes of his former existence
seemed to him as the confused remem-
brance of an ugly dream, horrible incu-
bus Science, in former times, feared to
treat this terrible malady, because, like ep-
ilepsy and catalepsy, it was attributed to
the possession of the demon.
SIN the year l779 young man by the
name of Blaise Forage, in whom this pre-
disposition to anthropophagy developed it.
self, secretly left society, to give himself up
to his sanguine tendency.
sHis retreat was cavity in a rock on the
summit of one of the mountains of Azure.
HE descended from this cavern into the
country like tiger, whom the most CHASTITY
hunger pinches, carried the women and
children he could overcome with him, put
them to death and sucked their blood to
safety.
''He lived upon no other nutrition. Sit
ting at the entrance to his cave with fixed
eye, in complete immobility, he waited for
an instant an occasion of carnage to pre-
sent itself.
"He never yentured out without being
armed with double barreled gun, several
revolvers and poigna1d.
sit filed every one with fright, that he
often entered the town to procure supply
of ammunition, without daring to refuse
him any nor to arrest him.
ITO muleteers lost in the mountain he
obered himself as guide, led them to his
cave. IN and there put them to death.
in vain large recompense was offered
by the ,.'ublic to any one who would venture
To deIiye,' this monster into the hands OF
=: ,.t;ce. buk Forage, ALWAYS on the lookout
esca'ped all means to capture HIM. Al
lengtno a peasant, pretending to follow the
same 81 wage life, retired to cave in a rock
heneath They met. The anthropophagu'
withdrew Fl nm thi. companion in the soil
tude with all signs of contempt and gave
response to all bis sA utes by leve!ing his
gun at him. But the intrepid rustic knew
how to avoid the balls TT his assallant'-
He tried to persuade the brlgand that !, he
was perfectly right in l'adin.s, sucn me me
and that if they were ASSOCIATED, me! coulo
more easily shun the attemip pts OF their par
suers.
"At length Forage was rers' uaded. One
night while he was sleeping his ccmpaH!ol
disarmed and delivered him to gensd afmes,
who lay in ambush near by. He was
brought to the prison of Toulouse, and YVES
condemned to be put to death by the
wheel; which was executed Dec. II, 1882
Forage was seventy-five years Of age at the
time of his death, and during four years
had subsisted upon nothing else but human
flesh"