The Sign of Four: Superstition

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Canon Story: The Sign of Four
Rating: Gen
Warning: Cannabalism
Summary: Small corrects Holmes' reference.
Author's Note: The members of the only pygmy tribe with which I have had personal contact (not of the Andamans) are much more likely to be victims, than perpetrators of cannabalism.

“Little Tonga’s body should be send home, Mister Holmes.”
“That can be arranged.”
“Unlikely. Your book’s wrong. Tonga’s people don’t eat strangers. But those jackals from the mainland hunt his kind like beasts, carve ‘em up, and swallow their flesh. Say it makes ‘em invincible. They’ve fished him out of the Thames and made a feast of him by now.”