Sumanto (born Purbalingga, Central Java3 March1972) is a cannibal from Indonesia. In early 2003, he stole the dead body of an eightyone-year-old woman who had just been cremated for less than 24 hours, before he ate her. He believes that this action will give him supernatural power. Image File history File links Sumanto File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Sumanto File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Categories: Indonesia geography stubs | Provinces of Indonesia ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557 as described by Hans Staden. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The supernatural (Latin:super- exceeding+nature) comprises forces and phenomena that cannot be perceived by natural or empirical senses, and whose understanding may be said to lie with religious, magical, or otherwise mysterious explanation —yet remains firmly outside of the realm of science. ...
(How can a body be "just been cremated for less than 24 hours"? Other sources say he dug up the body of an 80 year old woman and don't mention she was cremated.)
Sumanto's belief is based on local mystic. Experts believe that Sumanto suffers from mental illness. Mysticism, from the Greek (mueo, to conceal), is the pursuit of achieving communion with, or conscious awareness of ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct, personal experience (intuition or insight) rather than rational thought; the belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension that... The Scream, the famous painting commonly thought of as depicting the experience of mental illness. ...
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