Sacamantecas
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Sacamantecas or mantequero is the Spanish name for a kind of bogeyman or criminal characterized by killing for human fat.
Apothecary containers for Axungia hominis (human fat), 17th-18th centuries.
Charcoal drawing from Romasanta's medical report
Juan Díaz de Garayo
Francisco Leona c. 1910
Crime of Gádor
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The crime of Gádor was the name given to the 1910 kidnapping and subsequent murder of a seven-year-old boy by Francisco Leona in Gádor, Almería, Spain. The purpose of the crime was to use the child's blood and body fat as a folk cure for a wealthy patron's tuberculosis.
Cortijo de San Patricio at present