Editing Death by burning (section)

===Indigenous cannibalism===
====Americas====
Even fateful encounters with [[Human cannibalism|cannibal]]s are recorded: in 1514, in the Americas, Francis of Córdoba and five companions were, reportedly, caught, impaled on spits, roasted and eaten by the natives. In 1543, such was also the end of a previous bishop, [[Vincente de Valverde|Vincent de Valle Viridi]].<ref name="Perckmayr">Perckmayr, Reginbald (1738). ''Geschicht- und Predigbuch'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=3lpBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA628 p. 628]</ref>

====Fiji====
In 1844, the missionary John Watsford wrote a letter about the [[internecine war]]s on [[Fiji]], and how captives could be eaten, after being roasted alive:
{{blockquote|At [[Mbau]], perhaps, more human beings are eaten than anywhere else. A few weeks ago they ate twenty-eight in one day. They had seized their wretched victims while fishing, and brought them alive to Mbau, and there half-killed them, and then put them into their ovens. Some of them made several vain attempts to escape from the scorching flame.<ref>''Calvert, Rowe'' (1858), [https://archive.org/details/fijiandfijiansi00rowegoog/page/n290 p. 258]</ref>}}

The actual manner of the roasting process was described by the missionary pioneer David Cargill, in 1838:
{{blockquote|When about to be immolated, he is made to sit on the ground with his feet under his thighs and his hands placed before him. He is then bound so that he cannot move a limb or a joint. In this posture he is placed on stones heated for the occasion (and some of them are red-hot), and then covered with leaves and earth, to be roasted alive. When cooked, he is taken out of the oven and, his face and other parts being painted black, that he may resemble a living man ornamented for a feast or for war, he is carried to the temple of the gods and, being still retained in a sitting posture, is offered as a propitiatory sacrifice.<ref>See ''Hogg'' (1980)</ref>}}