"Cannibal" comes from the Spanish Canibales, a word first used by Christopher Columbus. During his time in the West Indies, Columbus heard stories about a group of natives who would eat the flesh of humans. These natives came from a place called Caniba, so Columbus befittingly named them "Canibales." As far-fetched as this story may seem, it is true!
No one knows. It seems like it has always been around, even before people!
The jury is still out that cannibalism as a ritual practice exists at all - or ever existed in human history as opposed to that practiced under conditions of starvation or perversion). Although much folklore abounds, no credible sighting of cannibalism by anthropologists exist. As the late Scientific American writer, Martin Gardner noted in his book Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Debunking Pseudoscience, that the sceptical case for why cannibalism is rare to non-existent, and rather something which emerges from the imaginations of ethnographers and archaeologists, or is rooted in scurrilous insults hurled between ethnic groups which have antagonistic relationships. He cites a 1979 book by William Arens entitled The Man-Eating Mythopened up the issue with a strong argument in favour of the belief that cannibalism has never been prevalent in any culture. Gardner notes that claims of institutionalized cannibalism have always been made by enemies, never the tribes themselves, and have usually proven hard to follow up. He refrains from taking sides but admits "My sympathies at the moment are with Arens."
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The word 'cannibal' is a noun, a word for a person or animal that eats the flesh of its own kind; a word for a person or a thing.
Every squid is a cannibal. Don't get caught by a cannibal. Is there a cannibal virus for computers yet?
Yes, the word 'cannibal' is a noun, a singular, common noun; a word for a person or thing that eats its own kind; a word for a person or thing.
No, the word cannibal is a noun, a singular, common, abstract noun; a word for one that eats the flesh of its own kind, a word for a person or thing.
"Cannibal" isn't a species it is a word to describe a being who eats another being of the same species.
Cannibal is a word to describe an individual. Regardless of the individual knowing what the term means, that individual can still be considered a cannibal by others.
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cannibal or cannibalism
A cannibal
Anthropophagi ( singular -phagus) meaning "people eaters" was the learned term for cannibal.
The word cannibal came into the English language in the 16th century from the Spanish Canibales, which was one form of a name of a Caribbean tribe the Spanish encountered who ate human flesh
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