News reports claim the cult group may have sold the human flesh in the form of meat pastries.
Details of the incident became public after Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo released a video on its website at the weekend.
The video showed Isabel Cristina da Silva, 51, saying she, her husband and his 25-year-old girlfriend had eaten 10 kilograms of human flesh over the course of five days in the city of Garanhuns.
The trio was arrested on suspicion of having murdered and cannibalised at least two women in what was described as a purification ritual. The trio also apparently took some of the meat and cooked it into meat pastries which they sold on the street.
The defendants claimed to be part of a sect called Cartel that “sought to purify the world and reduce the population”, police spokesman Democrito Honorato told AFP.
They intended to kill three women per year, police said.
"The details of the actions of the trio, with drawings and explanations of cannibalism, were found in a 50-page book written by Da Silveira, a man with a diploma in education and a black belt in karate," Honorato said.
The book, entitled "The relationships of a schizophrenic," hints at acts of cannibalism.
"The three ate the flesh of their victims to purify their souls," said the police spokesman.
Two bodies were found in the garden of the house occupied by the three defendants, which police believe were those of two women who disappeared recently: Alexandra Falcao, 20, and Gisele da Silva, 30. Both had been seen in the vicinity.
One of the suspects confessed she knew the name of a woman the group killed in 2008, Jessica Pereira, in the nearby city of Olinda.
via news.yahoo.com.au
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