This legal requirement may have led to conquerors exaggerating the extent of cannibalistic practices, or inventing them altogether, as demonstrations of cannibalistic tendencies were considered evidence of such depravity.

Kuru (disease), a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy with the cannibalistic funeral practices of the Fore people.

Dillon goes on to describe cannibalistic practices and rituals involved with Savage's and the others' bodies, but those details have been disputed by others.

It is a cannibalistic practice that has proved highly profitable.

He described in detail the cannibalistic practices of the Mangbetu, and his discovery of the pygmy Akka settled conclusively the question as to the existence of dwarf races in tropical Africa.

The reliability of Herodotus' description of the Padaei's cannibalistic practices has also been questioned by other scholars.

Even cannibalistic practices were noted.

Besides the example of the Fore, there is "strong evidence for widespread cannibalistic practices in many prehistoric populations," the researchers say.

In particular, Duncan refused to offer his parishioners holy communion on the grounds that it would whet their appetite for recently abandoned "cannibalistic" practices.

According to what Columbus had been able to decipher from conversations with other indigenous people, the Taínos greatly feared the Caribs because of their warlike and cannibalistic practices.