Una’s cartoon got me to thinking about people in cooking pots.
I recall old movies from the 1930’s & 40’s with scenes like this. I think there was even a cooking pot scene in Sharon Stone’s early movie King Solomon’s Mines or maybe a movie in the 70’s based on Allan Quatermain.
I’m curious when this appeared in literature. I’m thinking it must be either H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain stories or Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan series. There were other lesser know authors that wrote adventure stories based on Africa.
It’s a given that these early adventure books had unpleasant racial and gender overtones. My teachers discussed this extensively in my junior high literature classes. I’d prefer focusing on the cooking pot myth in this thread.
It is an odd myth because anyone that hunts knows a large animal must be field dressed before cooking. Otherwise the intestines will spoil the dinner. Even nicking the intestines will spoil deer meat when you field dress it.
Any ideas when the cooking pot with live people first appeared in literature?