Gall tells of an individual who, instigated by an irresistible desire to eat human flesh, assassinated many persons; and his daughter, though educated away from him, yielded to the same graving.
At Bicetre there was an individual who had a horribly depraved appetite for decaying human flesh.

He would haunt the graveyards and eat the putrefying remains of the recently buried, preferring the intestines.
Having regaled himself in a midnight prowl, he would fill his pockets for future use.

When interrogated on the subject of his depravity he said it had existed since childhood.

He acknowledged the greatest desire to devour children he would meet playing; but he did not possess the courage to kill them.
Prochaska quotes the case of a woman of Milan who attracted children to her home in order that she might slay, salt, and eat them.

About 1600, there is the record of a boy named Jean Granier, who had repeatedly killed and devoured several young children before he was discovered.
Rodericus a Castro tells of a pregnant woman who so strongly desired to eat the shoulder of a baker that she killed him, salted his body, and devoured it at intervals.
There is a record of a woman who in July, 1817, was discovered in cooking an amputated leg of her little child.