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Human cannibalism Human cannibalism is the act or practice of Human, humans eating the Meat, flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to ...

, the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings **

Androphagi The Androphagi were an ancient Scythians, Scythian tribe whose existence was recorded by ancient Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman authors. The Androphagi were closely related to the Melanchlaeni and the Budini. Name The name is a Latinisation of ...

, an ancient Scythian tribe whose existence was recorded by ancient Greco-Roman authors **

Anthropophage An anthropophage or ''anthropophagus'' (from , "human-eater", plural ) was a member of a mythical race of cannibals described by the playwright William Shakespeare. The word first appears in English after 1460. Origin The Anthropophagi mi ...

, a mythical race of cannibals described by the playwright William Shakespeare **

Autocannibalism Autocannibalism, also known as self-cannibalism and autosarcophagy, is the practice of eating parts of one's own body. Generally, only the consumption of flesh (including organ meat such as heart or liver) by an individual of the same species is ...

, the practice of eating parts of one's own body **

Child cannibalism Child cannibalism or fetal cannibalism is the human cannibalism, act of eating a child or fetus. Children who are eaten or at risk of being eaten are a recurrent topic in myths, legends, and folktales from many parts of the world. False accus ...

, the act of eating a child or fetus **

Endocannibalism Endocannibalism is a practice of cannibalism in one's own locality or community. In most cases this refers to the consumption of the remains of the deceased in a mortuary context. As a cultural practice Herodotus (3.38) mentions funerary can ...

, a practice of cannibalism in one's own locality or community **

Exocannibalism Exocannibalism (from Greek ''exo-'', "from outside" and cannibalism, "to eat humans"), as opposed to endocannibalism, is the consumption of flesh from humans that do not belong to one's close social group—for example, eating one's enemies. It ...

, the consumption of flesh from humans that do not belong to one's close social group **

Medical cannibalism Medical or medicinal cannibalism is the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases. The medical trade and pharmacological use of human body parts and fluids often arose from the belief that because the hu ...

, the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases *

Man-eating animal A man-eating animal or man-eater is an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the Scavenger, scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the ...

, an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior *

Man-eating plant A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving ...

, a legendary carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal *

Anthropophagic movement The anthropophagic movement ( Portuguese: ''Movimento antropofágico'') was a Brazilian artistic manifestation of the 1920s founded and theorized by the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral. Expanding on the ideology of Poesia ...

, a Brazilian art movement of the 1920s founded and theorized by the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral ** ''

Manifesto Antropófago The Anthropophagic Manifesto (Portuguese language, Portuguese: '), also variously translated as the Cannibal Manifesto or the Cannibalist Manifesto, is an essay published in 1928 by the Brazilian poet and polemicist Oswald de Andrade, a key fi ...

'' (''Anthropophagic Manifesto''), a manifesto published in 1928 by the Brazilian poet and polemicist Oswald de Andrade

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