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Anthropophagy

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Anthropophagy is the custom and practice of eating human flesh. [1]

7 relations: Anthropophage, Antropophagus, Cannibalism, Hematophagy, Human, Man-eater, Self-cannibalism.

Anthropophage

An anthropophage or anthropophagus (from translit, "people-eater", plural translit) was a member of a mythical race of cannibals described first by Herodotus in his Histories as androphagi ("man-eaters"), and later by other authors, including the playwright William Shakespeare.

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Antropophagus

Antropophagus is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato and co-written by D'Amato and George Eastman, who starred in the film as a cannibal.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.

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Hematophagy

Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα haima "blood" and φάγειν phagein "to eat").

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Man-eater

Man-eater is a colloquial term for an individual animal that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior.

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Self-cannibalism

Self-cannibalism is the practice of eating oneself, also called autocannibalism, or autosarcophagy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropophagy

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