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What were the events and traumas that shaped Hannibal Lecter into the weirdly beloved serial

The fava beans are stewing and the Chianti is decanting we're having lots of old friends

for dinner to explore Hannibal Lecter's story.

Hannibal Lecter was born on January 20, 1933 in the southeastern region of Lithuania to

a family of great wealth and noble bloodline.

His Lithuanian father, Count Lecter, was a direct descendent of warlord Hannibal the

Grim, while his Italian mother's ancestors ruled Milan for over two centuries.

Hannibal's education began early, and his teachers quickly discovered his extraordinary

intellect, along with a gift for learning languages.

By the time he was 10 years old, Hannibal could speak Lithuanian, German, English, and

Italian, and he was on the road to being fluent in Latin.

Hannibal was extremely protective of her and cared for her more than anyone.

It wasn't long after her birth, however, that tragedy befell the Lecter family.

In 1941, they were forced to flee their castle when Nazi troops invaded.

A small group of Nazis, lead by a brutish sadist named Vladis Grutas, found the Lecters

and killed the parents in front of Hannibal and Mischa.

The children were kidnapped and held prisoner until food ran out.

It was then that Grutas cooked Mischa in a stew in front of Hannibal and forced him to

Still in shackles, eight-year-old Hannibal escaped into the woods.

By the grace of wartime alliances, young Hannibal was found wandering in the woods by Soviet

The trauma he'd survived turned him mute, although he'd fully repressed the memory of

By this time, the Russians occupied Castle Lecter and turned it into an orphanage for

"It's not healing to see your childhood home.

But it helps you measure whether you are broken, how and why, assuming you want to know."

His fellow orphans considered Hannibal's muteness a sign of weakness, and he was bullied mercilessly

Hannibal took the abuse, but when he saw other younger children being bullied, he began to

Hannibal Lecter's particular code for choosing his victims began here.

But, though he was involved in many physical altercations, he had yet to kill.

After Hannibal's 13th birthday, his uncle, Count Robert Lecter, arrived at the castle

Hannibal went to live with Uncle Robert and his wife, Lady Murasakiin their country home

Hannibal was still mute, but he and Lady Murasaki had an instant connection.

Using martial arts, cooking, and meditation, she helped Hannibal begin to heal, and he

developed a taste for the finer things in life.

When he started to speak again, Hannibal added Japanese to his list of fluent languages.

But tragedy would befall young Hannibal once more.

When a local butcher hurled insults at Lady Murasaki, Hannibal attacked the man.

Later, when his Uncle Robert heard about the altercation, he confronted the butcher and,

in the resulting fray, had a heart attack and died.

In a haze of rage and grief, Lecter stalked and killed the butcher using one of Lady Murasaki's

He cut out the man's cheeks and ate them, marking both his first kill, and his first

"I would have used the butcher's knife, but the sword seems so appropriate."

Local law enforcement knew that Hannibal had killed the butcher, but since he passed a

lie detector test with a convincing story, they were forced to let him go.

In the wake of Robert Lecter's tragic and untimely death, Hannibal and Lady Murasaki

Hannibal's exceptional intelligence landed him a spot in a highly esteemed boarding school,

He completed his diploma in record time, graduating with honors as the youngest person in the

At 18, Hannibal returned to the cabin in Lithuania where his family was murdered.

After he gave his sister's bones a proper burial, Hannibal found the dog tags belonging

to the brutes who killed her, and something snapped.

He went after each of the men with cold precision, removing their cheeks to eat them.

Hannibal was now on police radar, and they were convinced he was a serial killer.

"He was killed in the woods where your family died.

In retaliation for the killings, Vladis Grutas kidnapped Lady Murasaki, and she was nearly

When Grutas reminded Hannibal of his own part in his sister's cannibalism, the repressed

memory pushed Hannibal from methodical to crazed killer.

This monster frightened Lady Murasaki so deeply that she fled France and went into hiding.

While Hannibal was in jail awaiting trial for Grutas' killing, he began to do work sketching

post-autopsy bodies for the medical examiner.

When public outcry led to a full acquittal, Hannibal took an internship at Johns Hopkins

in Baltimore, which turned into university and postgraduate studies.

"Well, now I understand why your drawings earned you an internship at Johns Hopkins."

Hannibal became a highly regarded psychiatrist with a reputation for throwing exquisite dinner

parties, during which he would often feed choice morsels of his victims to his unsuspecting

One of his patients, the millionaire Mason Verger, was a sadistic sexual assailant who

had attacked his younger sister so badly, she would never be able to have children.

When he discovered Mason's crime, Hannibal drugged him with hallucinogens and suggested

He did, and came out of the ordeal as a paraplegic with a lifelong grudge.

Around this time, Hannibal began to consult with Detective Will Graham on a serial killer

When Will discovered Hannibal's true identity, they nearly killed each other in a violent

In 2013, showrunner Bryan Fuller created an arthouse version of Hannibal Lecter's story

that drew heavily from previous books and movies while it simultaneously created a new

Fuller's Hannibal was in his 40s, with a backstory that saw him go to Florence as a young man

Inspired by The Monster of Florence serial killer, Fuller drew from the real-life set

of 16 ritualized killings that took place between 1968 and1985.

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