my guess is that birth defects (once much more common due to parasites, and disease, and other such things) were seen as religious portents in most of the world. in latin america they would raise the humpback up as an estemmed person, treated with mad goodies, and then killed like a fucking swamp rat to appease the gods.
all you need is two a year! Those fuckers would raid and pillage other tribes of which there were shittons and then take their humpbacks also, I guess!
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