Human placentophagy
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Human placentophagy, or consumption of the human placenta, is defined as "the ingestion of a human placenta postpartum, at any time, by any person, either in raw or altered form". It can be divided in
Dried human placenta as medicine - Ziheche (紫河车)
A slice of placenta, being prepared for consumption.
Placenta prepared in a stir-fry with broccoli
Starling Feeding Offspring
Child cannibalism
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Child cannibalism or fetal cannibalism is the act of eating a child or fetus. Children who are eaten or at risk of being eaten are a recurrent topic in myths, legends, and folktales from many parts of
Human placentophagy
…Although human placentophagy entails the consumption of human tissue by a human or humans, its status as cannibalism is debated. Fetal cannibalism Medical cannibalism…
Saturn Devouring His Son by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1745
Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya (c. 1820–1823)
Atreus carries one of Thyestes's sons off in order to cook him – 1574 engraving by Antonio Lafreri and Cornelis Cort
Illustration of Saint Nicholas resurrecting the three butchered children, from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (created between 1503 and 1508)