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...babies captured during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing. The survival of atrocious practices, such as cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence...
BURNERS OF MEN-Marcel Griaule- Lippincott...
...served as a magnet for such dissimilar imaginations as those of Evelyn Waugh (Black Mischief) and the late L. M. Nesbitt (HellHole of Creation). While both volumes made the country and its people out in strange, terrifying terms, they emerge as even more formidable in the account of Marcel Griaule, whose description of a French scientific expedition that traveled from the Nile to Addis Ababa has the quality of a nightmare sustained beyond human endurance...
...European society driving innocently toward a catastrophe so vast and overwhelming that even the most daring pre-War imaginations could not visualize it. The theme of Jules Remains' Men of Good Will, it is also the dominant note in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, in Marcel Proust's The Remembrance of Things Past. Even the cloistered Henry James, at the outbreak of the War, wrote that to consider that the peaceful, pleasant pre-War years had been secretly building up to this horrible climax, was "too tragic for any words," stopped writing, died. For European intellectuals...
Minister of Finance: Senator Marcel Régnier of the moderate Left, Budget Reporter since 1933 and a great croaker for economy but not considered to have a topnotch fiscal brain...