The Athropophage.
The Anthropophage were a monstrous tribe of cannibals described in Greek folklore.
Overview[]
These creatures were largely humanoid in appearance, but were considered aberrations who lived in a state of savagery with no law beyond that of violence. They were first described by Herodotus, one of history's earliest known historians.
Description[]
Anthropophage were greatly feared due to their ravenous hunger for human flesh as well as barbaric rituals such as drinking blood out of the skulls of victims. In later tales they would become less human in appearance and began to become confused with other monsters from myth such as the Blemmyes.
In modern times the word Anthropophage is often used to describe cannibals as a whole and the myth of the Anthropophage likely arose from encounters with warlike tribes or civilizations that became the stuff of legends as time went by, much as Ogres in medieval Europe were also largely a symbolism for the taboos of cannibalism and fears of the unknown.