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Near the Ganges River in northern India, there lived a group of strange-looking tribes. They feed on carrion in the river, like to wipe their faces with ashes, make cups with skulls and make beds with corpses. This tribe is called "corpse eater" by local people.

They worship the power of the dead very much, and the skulls taken out are usually used to hold water to drink. The "corpse eater" believes that Shiva created everything. They will salvage the floating bodies on the Ganges River, dismember them first, and then eat them raw.

In order to communicate closely with the gods, they usually paralyze themselves with alcohol. Although they are religious, they are not vegetarians and have no special taboos. Besides eating dead bodies, they also like to wear dead people's clothes.

"Carnivores" are usually mysterious and few people come into contact with their daily life. Just five years ago, an Italian photographer showed the mysterious "corpse eater" to the world for the first time through a set of photos.

This group of "corpse eaters" live near the Ganges River in varanasi, northern India, which is also a sacred place of Hinduism and a very popular small city. The photographer recorded the daily life of the "corpse eater" with a lens.

This group of corpse eaters only eat dead bodies and are one of the Indian ascetic monks. Bodies floating on the Ganges River in varanasi are sometimes their food. Eating dead bodies is not frequent, but occasionally.

According to statistics, thousands of bodies float on the Ganges River in India every year. Most of these floating corpses are saints, pregnant women, children, people who died of chicken pox, etc. According to religious regulations, these people will be thrown into the Ganges when they die.

There are also some floating corpses that are the dead of poor families, and the family can't afford enough cremation fees, so they can only be simply burned and thrown into the Ganges River. A steady stream of floating corpses in the Ganges provides this group of corpse eaters with unlimited food sources.

Some unburned bodies floating on the Ganges River have been highly swollen and decomposed. Those cannibals often haunt the river, salvage rotting bodies everywhere, bring them back and dismember them, and then eat them raw.

As can be seen from the photos, the makeup of these ascetic monks is very strange. They will cover their whole bodies with ashes or unknown white powder, making their faces and bodies gray and looking chilling.

Besides their unique faces, they also like to wear dead people's clothes. What is even more incredible is that these ascetics often sit on dead bodies to meditate or meditate, and even some ascetics sleep on dead bodies as beds.

According to the photographer, cannibals advocate infinite proximity to death, and they believe that doing so can be inspired by God. They will paralyze themselves with drugs and alcohol and experience the feeling of death to purify their souls.

Carnivores like to be naked, they don't cut their hair almost all year round, and they don't care about anything but horse meat. In addition to salvaging bodies in the Ganges, they will also go to the crematorium to collect them. This is the mysterious corpse eater in North India.

How long do ghouls who eat dead bodies and drink Ganges water live? Some people think that these ghouls may have a short life span because they often eat rotting corpses, but this is not the case.

There is no data to show that Indian ghouls have a short life span. On the contrary, their life expectancy is almost the same as that of other Indians who drink Ganges water, and there are even some elderly people, which makes many people feel very strange.

The Ganges River is a sacred river in the eyes of Indians, and it is also the daily drinking water source for Indians. The seemingly polluted Ganges water has super self-purification ability, and this unique function has attracted environmental experts from all over the world to visit India.

With the industrialization of India, the Ganges River has been seriously polluted in recent years. But Indians don't seem to worry about it. They still drink Ganges water, and their life expectancy has not decreased.

According to statistics, the average life expectancy of Indians has reached over 60 years old, and some data say it is 68 years old. Some of these corpse eaters are now 70 or 80 years old, and their life expectancy has not been affected by eating dead bodies.

Ghouls, as a kind of ascetic monks, have strong physical fitness and naturally their immunity is not too low. Moreover, dead ice is not often eaten, and dissolved oxygen and beneficial microorganisms in Ganges water may reduce the number of floating corpse bacteria.

So Indian ghouls have the same life span as other Indians.