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Anthropophagy

noun
1.
Human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh.






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"Anthropophagy" Quotes from Famous Books



... groups or sections of beings, slaves, children, women, cows, or what not, have been gradually admitted to mercy or to justice. They say that we once thought it right to eat men (we didn't); but I am not here concerned with their history, which is highly unhistorical. As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one. It is much more likely that modern men will eat human flesh out of affectation than that primitive man ever ate it out of ignorance. I am here only following the outlines ...
— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... Osiris and Isis tribes called in the worshippers of the hawk Horus, who were old enemies of the Set tribe, and with their help finally expelled the Set worshippers from the whole country. Such a history, somewhat misunderstood in a later age when the sacrifice of kings and anthropophagy was forgotten, would give the basis for nearly all the features of the Osiris myth ...
— The Religion of Ancient Egypt • W. M. Flinders Petrie



Words linked to "Anthropophagy" :   cannibalism



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