A person who practices cannibalism; one of a supposedly cannibalistic people.
From anthropophagi + -ite (suffix for people/followers), following the pattern of creating agent nouns from root words.
When you look at old texts that mention 'anthropophagites,' you're often reading pure imagination—Europeans rarely encountered actual cannibalism, but they invented elaborate terminology for it anyway, proving how powerful naming can be in creating 'facts.'
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