食しょく人じん

noun

cannibalism; anthropophagy

Refers to the act of humans eating human flesh. The term カニバリズム is more common in modern Japanese.

• その部ぶ族ぞくには食しょく人じんの風ふう習しゅうがあったと言いわれている。

  It is said that the tribe had a custom of cannibalism.