It requires a good courage for sipencurinya or the collector to store "objects", there being sold and used as a valuable collection. Here's a list of ten most famous theft of body parts in the face of the earth.
01. Maori Chief
Last week, the French National Assembly vote to return the mummified head of the Maori tribe of 16 people from various museums return to their homeland in New Zealand. In traditional Maori practice, often tattooed Maori skull bones who died, were kept as sacred objects to honor their spirit. But the appeal of the colonial era horrible cause a profitable trade, and many Maori chiefs who embalmed and brought to Europe in the 19th century, on the tattoo and beheaded by force by local and foreign opportunists.
At one time, more than 500 head of Maori languishing in the basement of European museums, in just the last two decades the New Zealand government asked the heads are returned kenegaranya. has more than 320 heads have been repatriated."You do not build a culture of trade," said culture minister of France, Frederic Mitterand, on May 5.
02. Bone Santa Claus
During the Middle Ages, the saint's body attract pilgrims from around the world. One of the most famous is St. framework theft. Nicholas, a model for Santa Claus. made into a bag of bones that are very valuable. In 1087, the Italian city of Bari hire people - some people call them pirates while others refer to them as "special sailor" - to steal the St. Nicholas of Myra, a city in Turkey today. Santa bones theft is still celebrated in Bari with the annual parade and fireworks.
03. Geronimo Skull
This is a strange fate that the bones of one of America's most fearsome enemies come to define one of the most sacred institutions of power. Apache warlord Geronimo, launched attacks in the Southwest and Mexico to avoid U.S. troops and for nearly three decades until his arrest in 1886.
after his death in exile the U.S. in 1909: Six members of the Yale Skull and Bones a secret organization, including Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George W.Bush, allegedly dug graves Geronimo.Sampai now his grave is still a mystery.
04. Heart Boleyn
Henry VIII of England divorces his first wife and marry Anne Boleyn is intelligent and smart. But Henry, he was expecting male heir, he thought the marriage was doomed after Anne just gave birth to a daughter and several miscarriages. The king accused him of having an affair with the common people and even his own brother. Anne Boleyn was soon arrested and beheaded in the Tower of London in 1536, and legend says that on the orders of King Henry, his heart is taken. Allegedly, Henry secretly keep it in a heart-shaped coffin in a small room of the church in Suffolk, until rediscovered in 1836 and re-buried under the church organ.
05. Brain Benito Mussolini
In 1966, twenty-one years after Benito Mussolini was executed, the U.S. provides the brains of former Italian dictator returned to his widow. In the diary Rachele Mussolini, he wrote that, to her horror, she found the Americans had "taken half of his brain," explained that Americans should have "want to know what makes a dictator." Apparently the U.S. government has requested samples of brain, of course, Il Duce to learn, but also as a trophy horrible. Forty-three years later, the grandson of Alessandro Mussolini was reported to police that someone was selling glass bottles have been suspected of the remaining parts of the brain and blood of Mussolini on eBay for sale for 15,000 euros. ebay listing was immediately removed.
06. Napoleon's Penis
The people have been fixated on the penis of Napoleon from Napoleon's doctor allegedly cut during an autopsy in 1821 and gave it to a priest in Corsica. The penis, which was not well maintained, has been stored for years so that makes it resemble a piece of skin wrinkles. until In 1977, the urologist who lives in New Jersey buy the "legacy" was for $ 3,000 and kept under his bed until he died 30 years later.His daughter has inherited the penis of Napoleon and auction for $ 100,000.
07. The remains of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, one of the greatest men in American history, a hero of the American and French revolutions and allegedly the first to write the words "United States," died in a state of misery in Manhattan. Only six people attended his funeral, and nursery rhymes are popular at the time of his death to go:
Poor Tom Paine! There he lay:
Nobody laughed and nobody cried
Where he has gone or how he appreciated
Nobody knows and nobody cares
Even after his death, Paine could not rest in peace. Some twenty years later, a journalist William Cobbett, Paine's body frame to dig graves and shipped to England where he hoped to build a proper memorial. Cobbett could not collect the money they needed, so Paine neglected in the suitcase in the attic. After the death of Cobbett, Paine remained disappeared. Legend has it that his bones were turned into buttons, although in the 1930s, a woman in Brighton claim to have a jaw bone.Poor Tom Paine!
08. Part of the foot St. Francis Xavier's
In the 16th century, St. Francis Xavier spent much time on his feet, spreading the gospel throughout Spain, France, Italy, Malaysia, Japan, Sri Lanka and India, died at sea en route to China. When a group of Christians interested in the jenazahnyanya, Portuguese women alone take his big toe. Allegedly he was caught when people follow the trail horrible to her home. Today, St. Francis Xavier's legs are on display in a silver casket in the cathedral. And not only that body part sajadari St. Xavier's corpse for the purpose of tourism: There are jewel encrusted fingernails on display in a different village, part of the arm were sent to Rome, and his hands in Japan.
09. Head of King Badu Bonsu II
In 1838, after decapitating two Dutch emissaries of King Badu Bonsu II, ruler of the tribe Ahanta in Ghana, was beheaded by the Dutch army. For more than 150 years, the head of King Bonsu was missing until a writer is stored in bottles of formaldehyde found in Dutch museums. Ghana returned immediately asked the head of their king, in July 2009, members of the Ahanta fly to The Hague and hold mourning ceremonies including sacred liquid poured on the floor State Department before taking his king's head back to Ghana.
10. African Purloined
Early last century, no less brave and wealthy Europeans traveled to Africa to bring the animal skin. safari can always produce prize rhino or lion. However, in 1830, a pair of France found the body of an African man who had been killed in the Kalahari desert, then embalmed like a doll for the show in Europe, his dark skin polished up to shine to make it look "African" - The body was eventually exhibited in a small museum in the northern Spanish town of Banyoles until a local doctor Haitian descent complained about it in 1992. body was finally returned to Botswana in 2000 and was buried in front of hundreds of local officials and foreign diplomats.
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