Head shrinking actually real

[supertom]

I feel like an idiot but i always thought it was just one of those horror myths

Actual footage of the head being shrunk

YouTube - Headshrinkers of the Amazon - Piers Gibbon on FOX TV

[Criseyde]

LOL, yeah! I've seen some shrunken heads, in a museum. They're pretty crazy.

[NDN Scholar]

Nazis did it in concentration camps on occasion. There's footage of it. Not pretty.

[Servina]

Yep. There's some in the Liverpool Museum. Ran away screaming when I was a teenager, only to run into that mounted seven foot spider crab in a glass case on the wall. I can't thank the British Empire enough for that memory...no really...thanks Queen Victoria...thanks.

[elucidate]

Yep. I saw a national geographic episode a week ago showing real tribesman doing the ritual of removing the skull from the flesh and soaking the "facemask" in boiling water to make it shrink, then filling it up with sand to give it form again.

They believed that by doing this, by reducing the size of the head it made them have power over their enemy (which should have been obvious by virtue of the fact that they had his head), and the stitching held curses so that the spirit of the person could not come and seek revenge on them.

People are nutty, and they always have been!

It's definately gruesome!

[NDN Scholar]

Yeah, well... By our standards, crazier things have been committed than this. As you said, luci, "people are nutty."

[supertom]

Originally Posted by elucidate

They believed that by doing this, by reducing the size of the head it made them have power over their enemy (which should have been obvious by virtue of the fact that they had his head)

dont you just love Insane troll logic

[GhostGoat]

I can relate to your surprise SuperTom. Everybody thought that zombies were just folklore until the early eighties, when they were discovered to really exist (although they weren't really dead, just drugged into a catatonic state, then buried alive and dug up shortly thereafter, and kept on drugs). That blew my mind.

Anyhow, while we're on the subject of head shrinking, here's one of my favorite tv commercials from when I was a kid...

YouTube - WITCH DOCTOR HEAD SHRINKER KIT COMMERCIAL 1960s

[elucidate]

Originally Posted by GhostGoat

I can relate to your surprise SuperTom. Everybody thought that zombies were just folklore until the early eighties, when they were discovered to really exist (although they weren't really dead, just drugged into a catatonic state, then buried alive and dug up shortly thereafter, and kept on drugs). That blew my mind.

Anyhow, while we're on the subject of head shrinking, here's one of my favorite tv commercials from when I was a kid...

YouTube - WITCH DOCTOR HEAD SHRINKER KIT COMMERCIAL 1960s

Yes, extreme ptsd from having to dig out of their own graves!

Who wouldn't be a zombie after that hellish experience?

Just look around the workplace...zombies everywhere(;

[supertom]

Originally Posted by elucidate

Yes, extreme ptsd from having to dig out of their own graves!

Who wouldn't be a zombie after that hellish experience?

Just look around the workplace...zombies everywhere(;

I remember something like that in ripleys believe it or not, guy decide to live in a coffin for 18 days... and he was buried deep There was a small pipe going up where he could get food. When he decided to quite it took 18 hours to dig him out. I'm glad that someones brave enough to do that. not me ever

[elucidate]

Originally Posted by supertom

I remember something like that in ripleys believe it or not, guy decide to live in a coffin for 18 days... and he was buried deep There was a small pipe going up where he could get food. When he decided to quite it took 18 hours to dig him out. I'm glad that someones brave enough to do that. not me ever

I don't know if I'd call that brave...or just freakin' STOOPID?

Did you know that Spike Milligan requested to be buried in a washing machine?

Stop and take a minute to really contemplate how hard it would be for a mortician to put a body in the throws of rigor mortis into a modern spin washing machine!