Old Baloch custom of drinking blood from skulls of their enemies

[Samandri]

In Ber or Hun (Revenge) section of "Baluch Mayar" i came upon an interesting account,

"Haibat Khan Niazi general of sher shah suri Arrested one son of Mir Chakar Rind and killed him. When Mir Chakar know about that ,he killed Haibat Khan Niazi, fashioned his skull into a cup and drank his blood in it"
We know that this is factually incorrect , Chakar Rind was merely a loyal subordinate of Haibat Khan Niazi. Refer to this article for further details. But from this account , we come to know about this interesting old custom of Balochs, drinking blood from the skull of their enemies. I did some research and found another such account,


"During the time of Mirza Khan Pannaey, the Afghan Chief of Sibi (1666-1699 AD) eighteen battles were fought between the Panni Confederacy and the Brahuis of Kalat in the neighbourhood of Sibi or Dhadar (Major H.G. Raverty does not make a mention of these but other historians belonging to the opposite sides namely, Mullah Fazil and Akhund Muhammad Sidique Akhbar-ul-Abrar 1854 mentioned these). In one of such battles Bahar Khan Kurak Pannaey wounded Mir Ahmad Qambrani, the Chief of Kalat. The Brahuis left the battlefield; the Afghans collected the booty, consisting of silken belts and horses of Turki and Tazi breed. Mir Ahmad Qambrani's sister named Bibo gallantly attacked the Pannis. Attired in male garments she fought valiantly and got killed at the hand of Jalal Khan Kurak (A. Aziz Luni Afghans of Frontier Passes Vol-I, p-185). Soon the Brahuis avenged themselves on the Pannis and defeated Rahim Khan Pirang who led the Pannis in the absence of Mirza Khan Pannaey.

Mullah Fazil writes: Mir Ahmad got off his horse to inspect the bodies of some of the Afghan nobles famous for their bravery in the battlefield. He smeared his moustaches with the fat of Syed Abdul Nabi and drank the blood of Shanbay Pirani (Mulla Fazil Nasab Nam-i-Barozi or History of Siwi, 1825 AD).

In 1695 AD, peace prevailed between the two tribes, which was sealed by a happy marriage of Princes Mahnaz the daughter of Mir Ahmad Qambrani with Said Khan Barozaey Panni, the brother of Mirza Khan Pannaey.

I noticed this on Baloch Mayar | Baloch Culture

“Bijar, one of the nobles of Chakarian age, was killed by the member of a Buledi tribe; his ribs were roasted and thrown outside to feed carrion kites. Consequently, the murdered man’s relations caught Haibat Khan, the Buledi chief, dragged him on a high precipice and, to comply with the savage custom of the race, his head was cut off and skull fashioned into a cup, served the victor as a drinking cup which remained for a considerable time among Bijar’s family.”

Edit: Some idiots in this thread are assuming that it is a practicing custom of Balochs, look up, its history section you idiots.........this used to happen centuries ago when your civilized mughals also used to build pyramids of skulls....."Civilized " Iranian Persian Safavid king used to drink in the the the skull of Shaibani khan uzbek which he killed in the battle.......

 

[TSA321]

That's a bit messed up.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

we have another less gory custom as well
those that pretend to be our friends and betray us for their own ends are roped and dragged by horses (now vehicles) until they die.

and then we bed their women and the children that are born are kept as slaves forever and raised to fight their original tribe.

our people have traveled up to Europe and America to settle such scores . what they did to the women of their victims is unknown and open to speculation.

 

[Jazzbot]

and then we bed their women and the children that are born are kept as slaves forever and raised to fight their original tribe.

That's more messed up than the original post.

 

[Samandri]

we have another less gory custom as well
those that pretend to be our friends and betray us for their own ends are roped and dragged by horses (now vehicles) until they die.

and then we bed their women and the children that are born are kept as slaves forever and raised to fight their original tribe.

our people have traveled up to Europe and America to settle such scores . what they did to the women of their victims is unknown and open to speculation.

Quite a messed up custom. I hope things have changed with time

 

[Irfan Baloch]

That's more messed up than the original post.

there is lesson for those who think that they can benefit from the fight of some Baloch with Islamabad.
like I said we have gone up to Europe and America. Afghanistan is just next door.

we lay in wait for weeks in the deserts and desolated places for our targets to go past and drop their guards.

 

[Samandri]

there is lesson for those who think that they can benefit from the fight of some Baloch with Islamabad.
like I said we have gone up to Europe and America. Afghanistan is just next door.

we lay in wait for weeks in the deserts and desolated places for our targets to go past and drop their guards.

Who are benefiting from fight of balochs with Islamabad? Mahmood khan achakzai?

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Who are benefiting from fight of balochs with Islamabad? Mahmood khan achakzai?

bhola

damag ko zor laga

its one who taunts us to do the same he did re East Pakistan

 

[Kabira]

we have another less gory custom as well
those that pretend to be our friends and betray us for their own ends are roped and dragged by horses (now vehicles) until they die.

and then we bed their women and the children that are born are kept as slaves forever and raised to fight their original tribe.

our people have traveled up to Europe and America to settle such scores . what they did to the women of their victims is unknown and open to speculation.

Damn

 

[Armstrong]

we have another less gory custom as well
those that pretend to be our friends and betray us for their own ends are roped and dragged by horses (now vehicles) until they die.

and then we bed their women and the children that are born are kept as slaves forever and raised to fight their original tribe.

our people have traveled up to Europe and America to settle such scores . what they did to the women of their victims is unknown and open to speculation.

Damn Irfan Bhai.....I hope that was just sarcasm otherwise that is so....so....barbaric !

 

[Samandri]

bhola

damag ko zor laga

its one who taunts us to do the same he did re East Pakistan

RAW, India?

 

[Dem!god]

we have another less gory custom as well
those that pretend to be our friends and betray us for their own ends are roped and dragged by horses (now vehicles) until they die.

and then we bed their women and the children that are born are kept as slaves forever and raised to fight their original tribe.

our people have traveled up to Europe and America to settle such scores . what they did to the women of their victims is unknown and open to speculation.

very good... keep up..

 

[PakhtunGuy]

we have another less gory custom as well
those that pretend to be our friends and betray us for their own ends are roped and dragged by horses (now vehicles) until they die.

and then we bed their women and the children that are born are kept as slaves forever and raised to fight their original tribe.

our people have traveled up to Europe and America to settle such scores . what they did to the women of their victims is unknown and open to speculation.

Damn, thats like forcing an Indian to eat cow meat.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Damn Irfan Bhai.....I hope that was just sarcasm otherwise that is so....so....barbaric !

nothing to do with sarcasm,
check out the memoirs of late Akbar Bughti, I have many differences with him but he was never shy in saying what he did and what he thought.

we will give life for our guests and our friends but those who backstab us and use us will get the worse from us. we dont discriminate in age or gender when we pounce.

the harsh and punishing environment of Balochistan has thought us to wait and wait and wait and wait
and then pounce our enemy we might not drink the blood from the skulls of our enemies because its gross but we do take off some limbs as trophies before partition one Baloch went all the way up to kalkata and after killing the fraudster he cut his penis off and shoved it his mouth along with the money.
he was captured and hanged by the Gora sarkar but his act made sure that Daal khors as we call the rest of the Indians lost the appetite for conning us.

Damn

I am just the messenger. I shared what I read and what I knew
every race has its own skeletons in the closet

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

We Americans just want to bring democracy to everyone.

Violence is pointless.

It has its uses. Just look at Vlad the Impaler, freaked out the attacking Ottoman Armies when they saw the Armies sent previously sitting on stakes.