Alanborky

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Mon, Aug 27 2012 at 6:38 PM

There is the similar concept of the draugr in ancient Scandiavian belief ie a corpse/spirit with cannibalistic propensities. But then you have the 16th century Scottish account of the cannibal Sawney Bean and his murderous family and all it'd take is for such a family or group to be operating undetected in the midst of these Stone Age Syrians and even if you didn't really believe in things like draugrs you'd still dig up your dead and smash them to bits just in case. In some ways such an approach'd be similar to the sort of protocol where carcases're incinerated just in case they're pestilent.