Anthropophagy

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Anthropophagy (Greek: ἄνθρωπος, anthropos, "human being" + φαγειν, phagein, "to eat") is the custom and practice of eating human flesh. It may refer to:

• Cannibalism, when one human consumes the flesh of another
  • Anthropophagi (singular anthropophage), a mythical race of cannibals first described by Herodotus
  • Self-cannibalism, the act of eating one's own flesh
• Man-eating, the consumption of human flesh by non-human predators ("man-eaters")
  • Human hematophagy, the consumption of human blood by other animals
• Antropophagus, Italian horror-film 1980.