The Leopard Men: Africa's Cannibal Secret Society | African Religions, History of Africa, Vodun
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This is both intriguing and unsettling at the same time.
Nicely done Jabzy!! I’m Efik and from Calabar and you’re one of the few people who have described the Ekpe society and similar secret societies in an educational and non condescending manner without ignoring the fact that these organizations were pretty brutal. Well done 💪🏾💪🏾
S...somebody needs to make a superhero story out of this somehow. There might be something of it in the DNA of Marvel's Black Panther but using this as mythology for a superhero universe would be great.
Nothing says superhero more than men killing women for being educated or not accepting their advances, eating babies and other african civilians. Yeah, sure.
It will be a good opponent for Black Panther to fight, a horror movie.
Black panther is based on the secret leapord society.
I had just been reading more about The Leopard Men thanks to your mention of them in an earlier video on the Scramble for Africa!!! Such an interesting topic! Thank you for posting this!
Another depiction of the Leopard Men in popular culture appears in one short story of the Corto Maltese comic book series, oddly enough in it the Leopard Society is not portrayed as evil (they are not good either though), one of them tells the main character they are old and beyond both understanding and control of the colonial masters; this comic is more recent than the others mentioned in the video which is the reason for a take about the Leopard Men that is not an straight example of savagery or backwardness, as at least within the story they are well-organized, capable to blend inside the colonial system and have a vast reach, implying the existence of just one Society instead of several independent cults.
But did they still eat people?
@@concept5631 yyyyyup
West Africa, one of the first sites of exclusive clubs of furrymen.
I am pretty sure those wolf/horse beastiality stories/rituals in Eurasia beat them to it.
@@ikengaspirit3063 "One of the first sites..."
@@cavaugnsharkey2699 I am pretty sure Indo-European horse rituals, their Krios(youth coming of age wolf) ritual and Turk wolf origin myth are older than 1800 AD.
Repetitive and annoying joke
Wow, great video. What I love about youtube nowadays, you come across such interesting stuff that you've never heard of before.
Tintin in Africa (originally Tintin in the Congo) was pretty racist and Hergé got a lot of criticism. And he actually changed his ways to a large extent. In a later album he was one of the first to portray the Mukden Incident as a Japanese flase flag attack, which it was.
fascinating.
I read some about it, by the time he wrote The Blue Lotus Hergé had been given some criticism for his portrayal of other cultures like those ones in The Cigars of the Pharaoh in which just as an example the arab language shown in street signs are just random gibberish strokes so when the next adventure of Tintin was to take place in the Far East Hergé actually took the time and effort to consult about the context with a chinese student; funnily enough the resulting book was for the longest time banned in Japan for their unflattering portrayal within the story, which while still using some of the yellow peril stereotype traits common at the time is more faithful to reality than his previous books. Seeing the reflection of the XX century through the many changes Tintin books went across the decades is something very interesting.
Amazing video as always
Wow we have myths of Hyena men in Somalia. Called Qori Ismaris.
I immediately remembered the Tintin comic with the leopard man even though it's been 30 years. I never questioned the depiction of natives until I stumbled on an article about the racism in early Tintin and boy was it bad in parts...
at least it got better afterward. Tintin too
@Graf von Losinj I was talking about tintin comics.
7:45 The whole speaking to your ancestors stuff isn't really unique to Ekpe unless they mean that in like direct one on one conversion like how you jist with a living person. But if it a more amorphous idea of talking to your ancestors even non Secret societies did that.
Great video.
Interesting video, thanks.
Do one on the secret society that keeps long John silvers open
For real
What up bitches I'm a Man-Cheetah
I laughed at General Buttnacked
and then I stopped very quickly. WTF?
Liberia is an insane country, there were generals(warlords) called buttnaked(because he fought buttnaked), rambo(who liked hollywood movies) and mosquito (who's rival was general repellent). Vice did a great documentary back then when they would actually go to places, they interviewed a former canibal general who surprisingly found God and is still on a mission of reconciliation.
You have documentary about him on UA-cam.
@@siruranos9172 "general repellent" now I've seen everything.
I once did a major rework of the Ekoi/Efik People's Wikipedia page for a college course assignment. Information was so sparce, would never have expected to see a UA-cam video on these guys!
Ok but this gave me flashbacks of that Tarzan Disney series
..... because it was a thing in it
Very interesting! Especially the bits about Nigeria. I would love to see a video on the politics of that country over the last 50 years.
There is such irony going on in this video, I wouldn't know where to start, excepting my first question.
Do females keep their own names after marriage? For how long has the name Nigeria been associated with financial fraud? Was there ever a Royal Family? Was there a time when Nigerian nationals were given preferred treatment ahead of other refugees? I know that there are many questions, my apologies!
Great video! Thank you!
There were hundreds of royal families and possibly still are.
Nigeria has had world leading anti-fraud technologies, they were adopted rapidly to help beat the fraud there.
there are traditional kingdoms with royal families I think, just not on the scale of Nigeria. More of the kind "small subnation local african kingdom"
And women take their husbands surname after marriage. Their first name remains theirs. I can only speak for my people (Yoruba) in this though, I don't know about every other people in Nigeria.
Thank you both for replying!
@@ruthanneseven You're welcome
Thank you.
Gotta love the way you animated your mouth
The thumbnail looks like Rob Lucci in his zoan from
Change my mind
Great video and all, but sorry... "general Buttnaked"?!?xD How does such a name even happen?
By being too based and red pilled.
He literally fought in "battles" naked
@@roblynch2810 And survived. Always knew armour and camouflage were useless. Guys with armour in shows always get taken out first.
He also fought in drag, now he is a priest
Wait till you hear of General Mosquito and his rival General Mosquito Spray... I'm not joking look it up they exist.
How did these guys avoid just going mad from Piron poisoning.
I think that only happens if you eat brains?
Some Papuans did it for generations though, the sickness isn't generally debilitating...
@@korakys Deadly Prions are largely in nerves so without cooking it in a way that would denature the prions, eating Brains is the most danger.
The sickness takes time to be really debilitating so most people don't see the effects until their older age but when it starts manifesting its madness and I would have expected some of these guys to be going mad.
@@ikengaspirit3063 ok, I didn't know that about the nerves.
colonial administrator vs furrys
Not sure who I should cheer for…
it was more like africans vs cannibal furrys.
I now have the mental image of a man in a leopard costume doing Ashida Kim's Kinje-Te routine on a dead guy.
What is crocodile man make a video on them too .
does a crocodile man plays crocodile rock?
its the same in the congo but there are call anyoto or aniota and there wash an assasin group and wash also sometime bringing justice look on wikipedia
Have you read Bronze Age Mindset?
Epic
I don't know what's worse. The blood or the semen.
A guy did a report on it in my ANT 101 course years back. Apparently the idea is that semen is the source of life and virility, and it was important to pass it on to future generations. It was only to be expended on women for reproduction. They kind of developed relationships between older and younger men of a sort quite common globally. The Ancient Greeks and Romans had pretty much the same thing, just they were based on social standing and patronage rather than a kind of bio-cosmology. In fact, in both cultures the love between two males was seen as superior to any love a man could feel toward a woman. Seriously; as I learned in four years of Latin, the Romans even put male friendship above the love one feels toward a spouse or female relative.
The semen thing is not unique it existed as far back as the old Egyptian dynasty, one of their founding myth is how a god was defeated because another god (Horus, I think) busted a nut inside killing it. According to them semen has poison.
@@OldMansWar kinda similar to how ancient Japanese and Chinese would approach male relationship. One of the most well known in Japan was Oda Nobunaga and his page Ranmaru, and in China there's Emperor Wen of Chen and Han Zigao. Kind of a small world
The blood, definately the blood.
@@OldMansWar "Romans even put male friendship above the love one feels toward a spouse or female relative" and they were right.
Story made of the Ekpe society???
Can't believe the furry vore community goes so far back.
Cue Assassins Creed
You should do some videos on india
No secret society on earth has ever been harmless. In the old kingdom of KMT, Pharaoh was said to be a cannibal who eats babies, young and old people in the "cannibal hymn".
IT WAS SAID HUH???
sauce or it didn't happen.
There is a difference from a literal cult of cannibals spanning several realms/regions of West Africa with tons of hard evidence and accounts of them, and Egyptian Dynastic propaganda making shit up about the previous one to make themselves look better
The kids do what with the old men?!
the thumbnail..
The Dalmatian man
First recorded furries
General but naked never ate babies he did eat people though usually those killed by himself or his men
He did. I saw it in a documentary when he talks about it himself. It’s actually because of the last girl he ate that he stopped and became a pastor
The origin of black panther!!
Yes
General buttnaked...umm
I know a strange secret society: the Church of Scientology.
So if Europeans came across this tribe and called them savages , would they be wrong?
technically speaking : "savage" means someone that lives in the woods, out of cities, without any pejorative connotation of its own. So technically, yes.
Well, given these Europeans are the same who burnt 9 million people and practiced medical cannibalism, it would be quite an audacious statement.
Sorta like the bat tribe in the amazon.
The Bat What?
Cannibal furries? Interesting.
The resemblance to the Klan is painfully obvious 😁
Cannibal furries... well, now I've seen everything
So just Furries
General Buttnaked
🤠👍🏿
Wow! First viewer, but three likes before me.
@The Philosoraptor I care
Internet math often warps timelines. Maybe no single machine operates as a quantum computer, but they collectively seem to
@The Philosoraptor Fair enough. I wasn't trying to be like the kids who are oh first. I was just pointing out how flawed the UA-cam view counter was.
@The Philosoraptor I understand.
@The Philosoraptor slSometimes when you see things on the internet and it's just text it kind of lacks context.
So basically They were Role playing furry incels
looking oddly happy when describing a gruesome murder
NOTICE THERE WAS NO GROUP LIKE THAT IN AFRICA “BEFORE” EUROPEANS CAME 2 AFRICA...
what can one expect of backwards illiterate societies were such practices are allowed
How can say that with certitude? Tons of african history was not written down. There is no way to prove this.
this is a UA-cam comment
These groups exists since the days of Adam
History and ideology is horrible and bizarre
but it's interesting to learn about at least
Great cultures that need to be respected.
Lol
shunned not respected
I'm all for tradition but uhhh child cannibalism should be shunned, we can still study it and show the history behind but the acta itself is no longer needed.
Unironically yes, those cultures in general need to be respected.
@@ikengaspirit3063 yeah, eating human flesh and killing women that refuse your advances needs to be respected!