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59: Cannibalism as Medicine?? The Wild trend of Mummy Powder

2022/10/19
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The episode begins with a discussion on the rarity of mummies and the fascination with them, leading to the revelation that their scarcity is due to historical cannibalism practices involving mummy powder.

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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Mummies, we know em, we’ve love em. And they are quite exclusive. Really rare. I mean everybody loses their minds whenever we find a new one. But would you believe at one time, there was a whole bunch of these bony bois lying around? Oh yeah, and what’s the reason why there are so few now? In today’s episode, we get into just that. And the reason…not exactly what you may think. Let’s just say…it involves cannibalism.

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