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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.
A man-eating animal or man-eater is an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense.
Bwana Devil is a 1952 American adventure B movie written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, and starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, and Nigel Bruce. [3] [4] [5] Bwana Devil is based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters and filmed with the Natural Vision 3D system. [5]
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
Medical cannibalism, the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases; Man-eating animal, an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior; Man-eating plant, a legendary carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal
Shower gel is a derivative invention of the liquid soap, which first appeared in the 1800s. In 1865, William Shepphard patented the formula behind the liquid soap, [1] but the product gained eventual popularity with the rise of Palmolive soap in 1898, by B.J. Johnson.
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The scene in which the titular man eater strangles a pregnant woman, tears out the fetus from her womb and bites into it, made it become one of the infamous "video nasties" that were prosecuted in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, and the "controversy greatly aided its cult reputation" as well.