She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step. She must have had the value of several elephant tusks upon her. She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. Joseph Conrad
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In the story The Gatherers by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the setting is a tribe of cannibals in Colombia's Amazon jungle. The people live in a village and make their living by hunting and gathering. They worship an idol called the "Queen," and anyone who is foolish enough to believe in her and fail to practice cannibalism will be killed. A young man named Paz grows up to become a leader of the tribe, but he falls in love with another girl named Julia.

He contemplates leaving the village to marry her, but he is soon captured by the Queen's men and brought to her. Paz is put to death but his life force drains into Julia's body, giving her strength and power.

Source: Heart Of Darkness

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