Beware human flesh capsules. So warn South Korean officials, concerned about these putatively Chinese and deeply Gothic imports.
[T]he capsules... were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder...
[S]ome people believe them to be a panacea for disease...
If you want more details, you'll find politics intersecting urban legend:
Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing.
Hot Air gruesomely ponders,
After reading several stories about this, I’m not sure we’re talking exclusively about fetuses here...
Reminds me of the “resurrectionist” trade, except that that involved studying corpses for medical research purposes and this involves … eating them...
There's something splendidly 21st-century Gothic about the phrase "human flesh capsules". Infocult: the world becomes our dream, step by step.
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