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The want of food became so urgent, that flesh was torn from dead human bodies; children were strangled by their parents, for the purpose of feasting on their flesh; and bands of express anthropophagists traversed the whole country.
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The Atákapa of old were a well-made race of excellent hunters, but had, as their name indicates, the reputation of being anthropophagists (Cha'hta: hátak, hattak person, ápa to eat).
Source: wiktionary
The notorious anthropophagist, Blaize Ferrage, called Seyé, seemed to have served the Marquis as a model.
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The anthropophagists were out to celebrate life. They rejected the oppressive theories of Freud and advocated a reality "sem complexos, sem loucura, sem prostituições" ("Manifesto antropófago", Revista de Antopofagia, I) ["without complexes, without madness, without prostitutions"].
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