ns of Weimar, who developed a depraved appetite for human
flesh. He was married at twenty-seven, and for twenty-eight years
exercised his calling as a cow-herd. Nothing extraordinary was noticed
in him, except his rudeness of manner and his choleric and gross
disposition. In 1771, at the age of fifty-five, he met a young traveler
in the woods, and accused him of frightening his cows; a discussion
arose, and subsequently a quarrel, in which Goldschmidt killed his
antagonist by a blow with a stick which he used. To avoid detection he
dragged the body to the bushes, cut it up, and took it home in
sections. He then washed, boiled, and ate each piece. Subsequently, he
developed a further taste for human flesh, and was finally detected in
eating a child which he had enticed into his house and killed. He
acknowledged his appetite before his trial.

Hector Boetius says that a Scotch brigand and his wife and children
were condemned to death on proof that they killed and ate their
prisoners. The extreme youth of one of the girls excused her from
capital punishment; but at twelve years she was found guilty of the
same crime as her father and suffered capital punishment. This child
had been brought up in good surroundings, yet her inherited appetite
developed. Gall tells of an individual who, instigated by an
irresistible desire to eat human flesh, assassinated many persons; and
his daughter, though educated away from him, yielded to the same
graving.

At Bicetre there was an individual who had a horribly depraved appetite
for decaying human flesh. He would haunt the graveyards and eat the
putrefying remains of the recently buried, preferring the intestines.
Having regaled himself in a midnight prowl, he would fill his pockets
for future use. When interrogated on the subject of his depravity he
said it had existed since childhood. He acknowledged the greatest
desire to devour children he would meet playing; but he did not possess
the courage to kill them.

Prochaska quotes the case of a woman of Milan who attracted children to
her home in order that she might slay, salt, and eat them. About 1600,
there is the record of a boy named Jean Granier, who had repeatedly
killed and devoured several young children before he was discovered.
Rodericus a Castro tells of a pregnant woman who so strongly desired to
eat the shoulder of a baker that she killed him, salted his body, and
devoured it at intervals.

There is a record of a woman