article_snippet: American explorer Theodore Morde said that on American explorer Theodore Morde own brief visit American explorer Theodore Morde had American explorer Theodore Morde seen a disturbing rite in which local natives ritually slaughtered and ate monkeys in a twisted hangover from the cult.
article_snippet: While they were there, Theodore Morde said, real spider monkeys peered curiously at the expedition’s team from the trees above.
article_snippet: One night American explorer Theodore Morde watched a group of natives perform a morbid ritual dance in which each of a group of natives brandished a spear on which were impaled three spider monkeys.
article_snippet: three spider monkeys were roasted over a fire in such a way that three spider monkeys limbs contracted and writhed in the flames as if still alive, and the whole tribe settled down later to eat three spider monkeys.