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William Buehler Seabrook (le 22 février 1884 - le 20 septembre 1945)était un Américain occultiste la Génération Perdue, c'etait un explorateur,voyageur et un journaliste, né à Westminster, dans le Maryland. Il a commencé sa carrière comme journaliste et Chef de service aux nouvelles locales ( Rédacteur financier) d'Augusta Chronicle dans la Géorgie. Il est devenu plus tard associé dans une agence de publicité à Atlanta.

Jeunesse En 1915 il a rejoint l'Armée française et il a combattu pandant la Première Guerre Mondiale. Il a était gazé à Verdun en 1916 et plus tard on lui a attribué la croix de guerre. L'année suivante il a obtenu le poste de reporter pour New-York Times. En plus de ses livres, Seabrook a fait publier des articles dans des magazines populaires incluant Cosmopolite, Reader's Digest et la Vanity Fair (magazine).

Cannibalisme: Seabrook a entrepris un voyage en Afrique occidentale, vivant avec une tribu connue comme "le Guere" Il a demandé au chef quelle viande humaine il mangeait,mais le chef ne pouvait pas décrire aux goût de Seabrook .Plus tard, Seabrook avait l'occasion de l'essayer lui-même,il obtient une portion de ragout avec du ris aussi bon qu'un rump steak.L'orignie, Seabrook pense que c'était un récent homme mort, mais ce n'était pas un meurtre. Les tueurs de cannibals de New York :Barnes & Noble. Il annoncé que "C'était bon,fully developed veal,

William Buehler Seabrook (February 22, 1884 – September 20, 1945) was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveller, and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland. He began his career as a reporter and City Editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia. He later became a partner in an advertising agency in Atlanta.

Early life

In 1915 he joined the French Army and served in World War I. He was gassed at Verdun in 1916, and was later awarded the Croix de Guerre.

The following year he took up the post of reporter for The New York Times, and soon became an itinerant. Besides his books, Seabrook had articles published in popular magazines including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest and Vanity Fair.

Cannibalism

Seabrook went on a trip to West Africa, living with a tribe known as the Guere. He asked the chief what human meat tasted like, but the chief couldn't describe it to Seabrook's satisfaction. Later, Seabrook had the opportunity to try it himself, getting a portion of stew with rice as well as a "sizeable rump steak, also a small loin roast to cook or have cooked" however he wanted. The source, Seabrook stated, was a recently killed man, but he was not murdered. He reported that, "It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable."

Later life

Around 1920, English occultist Aleister Crowley spent a week with Seabrook at Seabrook's farm. Seabrook went on to write a story based on the experience, and to recount the experiment in Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today.

In 1924, he travelled to Arabia and sampled the hospitality of various tribes of Bedouin and the Kurdish Yazidi. His account of his travels, Adventures in Arabia: among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervishes and Yezidee Devil Worshipers was published in 1927; it was sufficiently successful to allow him to travel to Haiti, where he developed an interest in voodoo and the Culte des Mortes which were described at length in his book The Magic Island.

Although Seabrook had a lifelong fascination with the occult practices of satanism and voodoo, as he saw firsthand both in third-world countries (documented in his books The Magic Island (1929), and Jungle Ways (1930)) as well as in London, Paris, and New York, he later concluded that he had seen nothing that did not have rational scientific explanation, a theory that he detailed in Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today (1940).

In December 1933, Seabrook was committed at his own request and with the help of some of his friends to Bloomingdale, a mental institution in Westchester County, near New York City for treatment for acute alcoholism. He remained a patient of the institution until the following July and in 1935 published an account of his experience, written as if it were no more than another expedition to a foreign locale. The book, Asylum, became another best-seller. In the preface, he was careful to state that his books were not "fiction or embroidery."

He married Marjorie Muir Worthington in France in 1935, after they had returned from a trip to Africa, in which Seabrook was researching a book. Due to his alcoholism and sadist practices they divorced in 1941. She later wrote a biography, The Strange World of Willie Seabrook, which was published in 1966.

Death

He committed suicide on September 20, 1945 in Rhinebeck, New York, by drug overdose.

Bibliography

Books

• Diary of Section VIII (1917)
• Adventures in Arabia (1927)
• The Magic Island (1929)
• Jungle Ways (1930)
• Air Adventure (1933)
• The White Monk of Timbuctoo (1934)
• Asylum (1935)
• These Foreigners: Americans All (1938)
• Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today (1940)
• Doctor Wood: Modern Wizard of the Laboratory (1941)
• No Hiding Place: An Autobiography (1942)

Short stories

• Wow (1921)

See also

• Cannibalism

External links

• The Life and Works of William Buehler Seabrook
• The Works of William Buehler Seabrook: An Annotated Bibliography
• William Buehler Seabrook Livejournal community
• Etext of Diary of Section VIII
• Etext of The Magic Island
• Etext of Wow and The Genesis of "Wow" (excerpt from Witchcraft, 1940)