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cannibal
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cannibal
a. a person who eats the flesh of other human beings
b. (as modifier): cannibal tribes


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That endocannibalism -- the consumption of one's own deceased -- is a topos in Herodotus is most clearly seen in his account of how Darius, King of Persia, summoned the Greeks and asked them `what price would persuade them to eat their fathers' dead bodies'; the Greeks replied that there was no price that would entice them to behave so (3.
Herodotus and the cannibals by MURPHY, E.M.; MALLORY, J.P. / Antiquity
This endocannibalism occurred safely within the chief's dwelling.
The political order and corporal coercion in Kanak societies of the ... by Bensa, Alban; Goromido, Antonie / Oceania
23) Endocannibalism (the cannibalism of relatives) is regarded as binding the living to the dead in perpetuity.
Moral innatism, connatural ideas, and impuissance in daily affairs: ... by Geis, Gilbert / Criminal Justice Ethics
 
 
 
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