This is called anthropophagy or cannibalism, and is a time-honored custom among some of the tribes of Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
There's an easier word for "anthropophagy," but the practice is every bit as disgusting whatever it's called, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Readthehook.com - Current Articles] Reference
According to anthropophagy, negroes are best, and white people most detestable. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
“My word!” returned the Canadian, “I begin to understand the charms of anthropophagy.”. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
We need you to lead the courageous charge against these anti-Irish, pro-anthropophagy institutions!. From Wordnik.com. [Is Rush Limbaugh really that hard to understand?] Reference
They themselves declare that they eat the slain only after a battle — the sentimental form of anthropophagy. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Good grief, just how much household anthropophagy has been going on while we've been discussing the war in Iraq and the weather?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
It seems that Bourrie obtained from a Library of Parliament clipping service a somewhat unflattering column about Kinsella by that master of anthropophagy, Jan Wong. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
I was quick to find out from Dr. Reay that anthropophagy was used to refer, in general, to bite marks of any species from the animal kingdom, not specifically human bite marks. From Wordnik.com. [The Riverman] Reference
Western European “explorers” annihilated millions of indigenous people in the “New World” under the pretext that they practiced anthropophagy and were better off dead or enslaved than they were living in their natural “uncivilized” state. From Wordnik.com. [Flesh, flesh everywhere, Nor any morsel to eat...] Reference
Odyssey at a distance of some six centuries; and in the interval it is extremely likely that anthropophagy had become rarer among the Greeks, and that if they still continued to be cooking animals, they were relinquishing the practice of cooking one another. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Like most traditions, the taboo against anthropophagy is rife with hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
When Grandfig had calmed, I asked him why he was so obsessed with anthropophagy. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
"My word!" returned the Canadian, "I begin to understand the charms of anthropophagy.". From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
Orinoco; and yet the two former are as much addicted to anthropophagy as the latter are repugnant to it. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
They themselves declare that they eat the slain only after a battle -- the sentimental form of anthropophagy. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
I made careful inquiry about anthropophagy amongst the Fán, and my account must differ greatly from that of M. du Chaillu. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
Islands; if they are unjustly accused of anthropophagy; it is difficult to attribute this difference to any superiority of their social state. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Having witnessed their parents 'mortuary anthropophagy, many of these children suddenly avoided their parents, shrieked in their presence, or expressed unusual fear of them. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
A modern example of lust-murder and anthropophagy is that of Menesclou, who was examined by Brouardel, Motet, and others, and declared to be mentally sound; he was convicted. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
A vegetarian by choice and usually by necessity, Bruin is accused of anthropophagy, and every child is taught that the depths of the woodland are infested by ravening bears with. From Wordnik.com. [Bears I Have Met—and Others] Reference
A younger man took up the idea, and made researches in the South Seas -- substantiating the claim that those races which took to anthropophagy had invariably supplanted the others. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Pilgrimage] Reference
I believe, however, that the anthropophagy of the inhabitants of the West India Islands was much exaggerated by early travellers, whose stories Herrera, a grave and judicious historian, has not disdained to repeat in his. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Cabres, the Guipunaves, and the Caribs, have always been more powerful and more civilized than the other hordes of the Orinoco; and yet the two former are as much addicted to anthropophagy as the latter are repugnant to it. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The lower slopes were thickly infested with cannibals, whom Mr. Roosevelt converted from anthropophagy by a sermon lasting six hours and containing 300,000 words -- almost exactly as many as are contained in Mr. de Morgan's new novel. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914] Reference
As will appear from the Fán's bill of fare, anthropophagy can hardly be caused by necessity, and the way in which it is conducted shows that it is a quasi-religious rite practised upon foes slain in battle, evidently an equivalent of human sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
Yet Dr. Schweinfurth’s valuable travels on the Western Nile prove that public anthropophagy can co-exist with a considerable amount of comfort and, so to speak, civilization — witness the. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
10. salt or is this one of those non anthropophagy weeks then I'll come up with a different ten!. From Wordnik.com. [[survival kit] which ten items would you choose] Reference
Cases of anthropophagy are cited. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Australia mining firm strikes gold in RP] Reference
Greek anthropophagy. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
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