A missionary was cooked alive when he tried to teach one of the last unspoiled cannibalistic tribes about the Eucharist. BRAZIL. The Amazon. Juno Freemont, A Catholic missionary who was seeking to spread the word of Jesus to the Yagua Tribe, one of the last remaining unspoiled indigenous tribes in the Amazon, was cooked and eaten when they mistook him for the body of Christ. His intention at the time was to provide to them absolution for their simple Jesus-like wicked ways. "