What people are known to often drink fresh cow's blood?

Jabberwok

The Maasai people, nomadic herders in east Africa, largely in Kenya. It is often mixed with the milk of the cow. http://www.maasai-association.org/maasai.html Jul 03 10, 12:52 AM

Zbeckabee

Cow Blood -- The traditional diet of the Masai (also spelled Maasai) people in Kenya and Tanzania is derived mostly from their cattle, though they do not often eat beef; rather, they eat milk and blood which is harvested by puncturing the loose flesh on the cow's neck with an arrow. The wound is closed after a gourdfull of blood is obtained. This operation can be repeated every month or so with no harm to the cow. The Masai typically drink blood mixed with milk. Cow blood is also consumed by other rural people, usually to avoid wasting it when a cow is butchered. (Europeans also use blood in black pudding, boudin noir and blutwurst.) Cow blood can be cooked with fresh or sour milk as follows: Pour the fresh blood through a sieve to separate it from the clots. Mix three parts liquid blood to one part milk (or equal parts blood and sour milk). Cook over low heat, stirring often, for twenty to thirty minutes. The mixture should thicken like scrambled eggs. If desired, butter, fried chopped onions, or salt can be added during cooking. Serve with Ugali, Fufu, or boiled Plantains, or Rice. http://www.congocookbook.com/other_recipes/cow_blood.html Drinking blood and manufacturing foodstuffs and delicacies with animal blood is also a feeding behavior in many societies. Cow blood mixed with milk, for example, is a mainstay food of the African Maasai. Some sources say[citation needed] that Mongols would drink blood from one of their horses if it became a necessity. Black Pudding is eaten in many places around the world. Some societies, such as the Moche, had ritual hematophagy, as well as the Scythians, a nomadic people of Russia, who had the habit of drinking the blood of the first enemy they would kill in battle. Some religious rituals and symbols seemingly mirror hematophagy, such as in the transubstantiation of wine as the blood of Jesus Christ during Christian eucharist. Psychiatric cases of patients performing hematophagy also exist. Sucking one's own blood from a wound is also a behaviour commonly seen in humans, and in small enough quantities is not considered taboo[citation needed]. Finally, human vampirism has been a persistent object of literary and media attention. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity forbid drinking of blood. There are references in the Old and New Testaments clearly prohibiting this practice (see, for instance, Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 3:17, 7:26, 17:12, 17:14, 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:16, 12:23, 15:23; 1 Samuel 14:33-34; Ezekiel 33:25; Acts 15:20, 15:29, 21:25). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematophagy Jul 03 10, 9:47 AM