Infanticide is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, its main purpose be
Infanticidio by Mexican artist Antonio García Vega
Skeletal remains of children from a ritual sacrifice discovered at Tlatelolco, exhibited at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
Medea killing her sons, by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1862)
Femme Russe abandonnant ses enfants à des loups ("Russian Woman Abandoning Her Children to the Wolves"). Charles-Michel Geoffroy [fr], 1845
Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has
Enemies being killed and roasted by the Tupinambá in South America, watched by the naked German captive Hans Staden. Engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592).
Survival cannibalism during the Russian famine of 1921–1922
Sketch of the Mignonette by Tom Dudley. In English common law, the R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) case banned killing others to eat them after maritime disasters, which had been a widely accepted custom of the sea.
A Yali man from Western New Guinea. Historical accounts describe warfare-related cannibalism directed against enemies (exocannibalism) among the Yali, with reports of such practices continuing into the 1970s.