Verkkocannibalism, or anthropophagy, is the consumption of the flesh of one human by another. The word “cannibalism” itself comes from the spanish. Caught in the sierra nevada mountains in 1846 during a brutal In 1672, the dutch statesman johan de witt and his brother were lynched and. Verkkocannibalism can be defined as the intentional consumption of the flesh of a member of one's own species. Verkkocannibalism in human history is rarely just about eating. It even became a justification used by western imperialists to explain the enslavement of. Verkkotaking cannibalism from the realm of history to a chilling contemporary context, the case of armin meiwes, also known as the rotenburg cannibal,.