It has also been reported from Java, China, Japan, and is said to have been seen in Spain and Portugal.

Peat-eating or bog-eating is still seen in some parts of Ireland.
There were a number of people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who had formed the habit of eating small pebbles after each meal.

They formed the habit from seeing birds swallowing gravel after eating.

A number of such cases are on record.
There is on record the account of a man living in Wurtemberg who with much voracity had eaten a suckling pig, and sometimes devoured an entire sheep.

He swallowed dirt, clay, pebbles, and glass, and was addicted to intoxication by brandy.