Cannibals are all over the news. Humans are eating humans, and you can’t avoid that it’s all the buzz at the Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Anomalist News, and hundreds of other online sites. I posted about this yesterday at the Twilight Language blog, in “Sychronmystic Cannibals?“.
So I got to pondering,
Why are Forest Giants and Windigos/Wendigos called “Cannibals” and “Cannibal Giants” when they eat humans? Why do Bigfoot scholars so casually use the word “Cannibals” when talking about Sasquatch eating humans?
The image of a “cannibalistic” Wendigo confronting a human is from the Dark Horse comic series B.P.R.D.
If a Bigfoot eats a human in a forest, is it a cannibal?
Think about it.
What’s the definition of cannibalism and cannibals? The word “cannibalism” originated from caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies ethnic social group formerly well known for their practice of eating other humans. Cannibalism, also called anthropophagy, is defined as the act or practice of humans (Homo sapiens) eating the flesh of other human beings, although prehistorically Neandertals eating CroMagnons and CroMagnons eating Neandertals has been called cannibalism. Humans eating Homo floresiensis, the so-called little people, the Hobbits of Flores Island may have taken place, and I’m sure that would be called cannibalism, as well.
But why should Bigfoot who munch on humans be called “cannibals”? They aren’t humans. Or, at least, that hasn’t been proven yet.
What do you think?
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