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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck natives to violate tribal taboos, and so bound them to the movement by cutting them off from all else. Some of the grisly Mau Mau oath-taking rites called for copulation with sheep, eating the flesh of exhumed corpses or drinking the "Kaberi-chia cocktail," a blend of semen, menstrual blood and sheep's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: De-Oathing the Kilcuyu | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...collected live ova from Petrucci's female patients during hysterectomy or after sudden death. Since the ova had to be ripe for fertilization, Petrucci scheduled his female patients' uterine operations to coincide with the egg's maturation. Sperm was obtained from male patients who brought Petrucci semen for fertility analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Glass Womb | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...this world or the next." To achieve this, the Mau Mau leadership forced its recruits, voluntary or involuntary, to seal their oaths by digging up corpses and eating their putrefied flesh, copulating with sheep, dogs or adolescent girls, and by drinking the famed "Kaberichia cocktail"-a mixture of semen and menstrual blood. And when he was assigned to kill an enemy of the movement, a sworn Mau Mau pledged himself to remove the eyeballs of his victim and drink the liquid from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Oath Takers | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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