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Chris Michetti
Detective Sergeant
Username: Pl4tinum
Post Number: 54
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 12:56 pm: |       |
http://hsc.csu.edu.au/pta/scansw/dinka.htm
Cutting V shaped notches into the foreheads of boys as a ritual (eddowes?)? And these people were cattle herders, much like La Bruckman or some other cattle boat sailors from the National Lines.
Initiation is marked by mutilation - tribal marks of several parallel lines or V-shaped marks - are scarified onto the youth's forehead.
I know this is far fetched and going really far out on a limb, unrelated to the ripper, but wasn't La Bruckman from North Africa? I'm not saying he is from Sudan or that this is a ritual he was at all familiar with but maybe another cattle boat sailor was, since we know those boats docked during all of the killings.
Just giving people something to think about, I'm an amateur researcher obviously. Just peaked my interest and thought I'd share if anyone cares. Maybe there is something on a tangent from this that could turn something up.
Chris 
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Natalie Severn
Inspector
Username: Severn
Post Number: 463
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 2:36 pm: | |
Right on Chris!will start thinking about that -a tribal type initiation of sorts....
Best Natalie |
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