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What's the deal with Hind bint Utbah eating Muhammad's uncle Hamza's liver? Historicity of the incident aside, was eating a defeated foe's liver (or heart) a 'thing' in pre-Islamic Arabia or any related peoples?

by /u/jurble in /r/AskHistorians

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