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Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. Human cannibalism is also well documented, both in ancient and in recent times.

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“Why should I speak of other nations when I myself, a youth on a visit to Gaul, heard that the Atticoti, a British tribe, eat human flesh, and that although they find herds of swine, and droves of large or small cattle in the woods, it is their custom to cut off the buttocks of the shepherds and the breasts of their women, and to regard them as the greatest delicacies?”
— Jerome, Against Jovinianus (393 CE), book2, ch.7
“Most ferocious are those new anthropophagi, who live on human flesh, Caribs or cannibals as they are called.”
— Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, De Orbe Novo, The Third Decade, book 3
“A woman [is sold for the price of two goats]. A man [brings the price of three goats], or four if he is plenty large... If there is as much to eat on a man as on three goats, he brings the price of three goats... as the point of view of the final purchaser determines the price, and the consumers are cannibals, the price of a man is generally determined by the amount of meat on him.”
— A settler in the Congolese Kasaï region explaining prices charged for slaves sold by the Zappo Zap to the missionary Samuel N. Lapsley, 1891
“Mr. Gillan, the missionary at Uripiv, told me that he knew of a vendetta between two villages which had been closed, not as is usual by the payment of pigs, but by the sending of a small boy as sacrifice; and who, he concluded, was afterwards eaten.”
— Boyle T. Somerville, "Ethnological Notes on New Hebrides", Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 23 (1894), p.383.
“When the Yumu, Pindupi, Ngali, or Nambutji were hungry, they ate small children with neither ceremonial nor animistic motives. Among the southern tribes, the Matuntara, Mularatara, or Pitjentara, every second child was eaten in the belief that the strength of the first child would be doubled by such a procedure.”
— Géza Róheim, Children of the Desert: The Western Tribes of Central Australia, vol.I (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), p.71
“Well, Lucy MacLean, it ain't all canned peaches and marmalade left up here, sweetheart. Sometimes a fella's got to eat a fella.... I'll bet your daddy was first in line at the cookout. I bet he had a bib with a drawing of his neighbor's ass on there.... Why the fuck am I doing all the work? Now come on, vaultie. Ass jerky don't make itself.”
— Fallout, season1, episode4, "The Ghouls" (2024)

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