Among the cannibals contains the stories of five different cannibals all over the world. this particular chapters happened to deal with the aghoris of indian. these “holy men” live near the ganges river the most holy river in India. These holy men participate in the eating of the flesh of those who are on the funeral pyres. A aghoris the author met by the name of Anil ram baba was asked if they consider themselves cannibals and his response was “We are not cannibals, when they die they are lumps of flesh” he claims its spiritual right to eat the flesh of the dead remarking it tastes like pig and that he had a willing choice to eat human flesh motioning several times to his kapalik “half human skull used to drink whisky” when asked how the aghoris view the meat of the dead Anil stated that it was the divine food of the gods “mama prasad”