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  2. The Man-Eating Myth - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Rakshasa - Wikipedia

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    Aside from their treatment of unnamed rank-and-file Rakshasas, the epics tell the stories of certain members of these beings who rose to prominence, sometimes as heroes but more often as villains. Thapar suggests that the Rakshasas could represent exaggerated, supernatural depictions of demonized forest-dwellers who were outside the caste society.

  4. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.

  5. Laestrygonians - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. The Well Wrought Urn - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. Harvest) Cover design by Paul Rand. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks.It is considered a seminal text [1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism.

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  8. At the Hawk's Well - Wikipedia

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    The play is stylised, abstract, symbolic, and ritualistic, unlike its more realistic and plot-driven contemporaries. The stage is "any bare space before a wall against which stands a patterned screen", [2] and the only props are a black cloth with "a gold pattern suggesting a hawk", [3] and a blue cloth to represent a well.

  9. Wolf of Gysinge - Wikipedia

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    The wolf was killed on March 27, 1821. Historical accounts indicate that before becoming a man-eater, the wolf was captured as a pup in 1817, and kept in captivity for several years before escaping. In captivity, wolves tend to lose their natural shyness of humans and thus attack more frequently after escape from captivity. [3]