stop i’m tryna eat my strawberries

The Midnight Library podcast have just released an episode about corpse medicine if anyone wants to learn more :)

The Victorians were weirdos.

Definitely not worse then consuming parts of elephants/tigers/lions/rhino's etc etc[like we still do now as humans] for medicinal or artistic purposes.

"This is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!" 161994.jpg

Victorian British's Mom: "Victorian British! Are you in there eating Egyptian mummies again?" Victorian British (with its mouth full): "NO!"

FFS Victorian England recorded that s**t and museum-ed it. Ate it? It was distributed all over North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria. Morocco, Egypt included) and the Middle East (Turkey, Syria, Jordan etc). Archaeologists from all countries worked together and did their best to record their findings and save them. In varying museums that are not getting in silly fights on Bored Panda.

Why not the Egyptian daddies, too? Did they taste bad?

What, like jerky?

16th & 17th Century Europeans - Not just Victorian British. The mummys remains were crumbled and ground into powder, sometimes combined with alcohol or chocolate, to cure a variety of ailments from headaches to internal bleeding. Yep...

Mainly because of humorism. It was like superfood back in the day. "Oh you have bad humors? Here, eat this manky old finger"

They were also used as paint, and that only stopped when the supplier ran out of mummies!

They would also use them as firewood.

Their wrappings were used for paper, too.

Or ground them up and used them for house paint....Yeah, Victorian England's walls were painted with mummy color...

Also ground a lot into fertilizer. Though that was mostly the cats.

That is.... unsettling

WHATTHE HELL!!! WHY!!!NOOOOO!! AHHHHHHHH

I thought that was mostly caused by the British using them to stoke fires. Never heard of them eating them. I suppose they ground them up and used as a supplement or something. Either way just plain macabre and weird.

I feel like vomiting

what.the.fnck.

Or maybe if they hadn't been burned for fuel.

or used them in paint lol

Here ya go https://ibb.co/j5Q7m8P

Between the 12th and 17th century and even well into the 18th, powdered mummy or "Mummia" was used as a medical treatment throughout Europe. Swiss physician and "alchemist" Paracelsus believed that drinking human blood was good for the human body and also promoted mummy powder to treat ailments.

Mummy, this tastes delicious. Wait, no, This mummy tastes delicious.

Egyptians burned them to power locomotives, Americans had unwrapping parties.

come again i (hope) think i misheard you?

Yum

Since the 12th century, Europeans had been eating Egyptian mummies as medicine. In later centuries unmummified corpses were passed off as mummy medicine, and eventually some Europeans no longer cared whether the bodies they were ingesting had been mummified or not.

@Kelly Richards, shut your frickn mouth

Yum Egypt corpses 😋

It improved their sex lives, 'mright?

Apparently, animal mummies were also chopped up and used as fertilizer by the British.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

The actual heck

That is so disgusting.

Ah, good ole mummy medicine

They were also used as kindling

Um.... no explanation!?

What in the hay bale?!

Aged jerkey??

I-.......ExCusE mE?!

okay WHAT

Wasn't that debunked? I know I've read something (here I think) where they said, that they used something with the same name but that wasn't actually mummies, or something similar. I will google it and come back.

Eaten, burned as firewood, turned into paint, used for medicine...

I remember Ernest doing something like that in one of his movies. 7 year old me wanted to barf when I first watched it! 🤢 He was eating off one in a museum for some reason.

yeah, that should have some further explanation...