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In a separate text known by the name of the Acts of Andrew and Matthias, which was edited by Max Bonnet in 1898 [5] and translated by M.R. James, [6] Matthias is portrayed as a captive in a country of anthropophagi (literally 'man-eaters', i.e. cannibals) and is rescued by Andrew and Jesus; it is no longer considered to be a portion of the text ...
Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. The satyr play of Euripides is dependent on this episode apart from one detail; Polyphemus is made a pederast in the play. Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea.
The second chapter, entitled "The Classic Man-Eaters", explores the accounts of cannibalism produced by European colonialists and travellers in the Americas during the Early Modern era. It begins by documenting the Spanish interaction with the Carib people of the Lesser Antilles, first begun by Christopher Columbus and his men in the 1490s.
They were shown as being mean, growling beasts, and as insatiable man-eaters that could smell the scent of human flesh. Some of the more ferocious ones were shown with flaming red eyes and hair, drinking blood with their cupped hands or from human skulls (similar to representations of vampires in later Western mythology).
Maneater or man-eater may refer to: Man-eating animal , an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior Man-eating plant , a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal
The fourth panel of the so-called “Odyssey Landscapes” wall painting from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60–40 B.C.E.. In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians / ˌ l ɛ s t r ɪ ˈ ɡ oʊ n i ə n z / or Laestrygones / l ɛ ˈ s t r ɪ ɡ ə ˌ n iː z / [1] (Greek: Λαιστρυγόνες) were a tribe of man-eating giants.
Articles relating to the Tsavo Man-Eaters and their depictions. They were a pair of man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed 135 people.
English: Hans Staden was born in Hesse, Germany, sometime between 1525 and 1528. He made his first voyage to Brazil in 1547-48, serving as a gunner on a Portuguese ship. In 1550 he joined a Spanish expedition to the La Plata River but was shipwrecked and eventually captured by Tupinamba Indians, who were known as cannibals who ate their captiv