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Pacific horror stories, you say?
Funny you mention Fiji :^)

Fiji is an island rather isolated from the other pacific islands. It was so far away that the first people that sailed to this island ran out of food on their boat, and had to resort to cannibalism. :^)

Once they bumped into the island they noticed that there was no source of red meat anywhere, so their cannibalism continued.

Because humans tend to be more sympathetic to their own species than animals, a human would need to dehumanize another human if he would want to eat them. Cannibalism always has to have rituals to dehumanize the victim. It's also why the victims were often referred to as "long pig" (puaka balava) or "big fish" (ikalevu)

When people think of cannibalism they think of a cartoonish image of a missionary being out in a boiling pot with some vegetables, but it's far, FAR, more atrocious and disturbing than that :^)

One ritual was tying up a victim to a pole, and putting a fishhook through their tongue. They would then pull the tongue forward and cut it off, so they knew they cut off the entire tongue.
The tongue was then grilled on a fire and eaten in front of the victim, while his tormentors mocked and humiliated him. :^)

Then, they would tear off one of his arms, grill it, and eat it in front of him, in the same fashion.
They'd do this to every one of his limbs until he bleeds to death. :^)

Calling it a cannibal holocaust would not be an exaggeration, literally thousands, if not millions, of people were tortured, killed and eaten until around 1870, when Christianity became the dominant religion of Fiji.

The Fijian Ratu Udre Udre is considered to be the most prolific cannibal in the history of the world according to the Guinness Book of Records, by eating 872 to 999 people :^)

There are many "progressive white guilty" academics that try to deny cannibalism, saying it was nothing but colonial propaganda of the white man.
Would that count as "cannibal holocaust denial"? ;^)

Who knows! (^:

>>238
what would you have to do to deserve this fate? is it random or did you have to fuck up really badly somehow.

>>240
I'm pretty sure war-prisoners, criminals, people who have broken taboos, etc. etc. had a priority, but punishment was not the main motive.
There was just this sadist kick that Fijians got out of cannibalism that is difficult to understand in today's context.

They would even casually chew on raw pieces of human skin or human ears as chewing tobacco. :^)

Festivals always were good reasons to eat lots of people. Whenever a canoe was built there was one.
Although, the festival about a chieftain's canoe being finished was infinitely more spectacular and gruesome than when a regular guy's canoe was finished.

According to traveler Alfred St. Johnston a man had to be slain for the laying of its keel, a fresh man was killed for every new timber that was added, more dead men were used as rollers to aid its passage to the sea, and then fresh men were killed to wash the canoe with blood. :^)

I think Fijians were somewhat on the same level as Aztecs when it comes to gruesomeness, although the Aztecs seemed to hold more of a religious motive behind it. (^:

It somewhat reminds me of the stuff that went on in Auschwitz and Soviet Gulags personally. :^)