grandmother-devouring

Updated: May 25, 2025

One might think that the inhabitants, whom Bertholon holds to be descendants, somewhat remote, of the old marrow-sucking, grandmother-devouring Neanderthal folk, would have become placid by this time; that all harshness must have been boiled out of them. Far from it!

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia