Androphagi
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Androphagi (Greek for "man-eaters") was an ancient nation of cannibals north of Scythia (according to Herodotus), probably in the forests between the upper waters of the Dnepr and Don.
A hypothesis popular in the West is that they were most likely Finns — the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: "self-eater". This hypothesis is false, see Nenets.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
