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You know about these Anthropophagi, and how we have lost Matthew, Peter, Walter, Colin and many more
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American novelist Rick Yancey incorporates the myths of the Anthropophagi in his 2010 release
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is sometimes depicted as a being without a head, but instead have their faces on the
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Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
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This article is about the Anthropophagi. Not to be confused with
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Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
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Shakespeare makes yet another reference to the cannibalist
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Go knock and call; hell speak like an Anthropophaginian
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Mythical race of cannibals first described by Herodotus
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The most famous usage of the Anthropophagi appears in
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and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders
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