Yet as the Essex tragedy reveals, cannibalism creates legends, but not necessarily pariahs.
The Greeks created legends about the volcano, saying that it was the workshop of Hephaestus and the Cyclops or that underneath it the giant Typhon lay, making the Earth tremble when he turned.
Click here or click on view gallery above to launch our guide Moments that helped create legends and fuel rivalries, races that shaped the very essence of a driver's style and incidents that altered the course of championship, and even racing history.
Along with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, they created Legends Hospitality Management, a concessionaire that services stadiums, arenas, and even the observation deck at the new World Trade Center.
The new version adds a number of map-making and advanced printing tools that will make it easier for businesses to create legends and scales for their maps and to add titles to them.
They have played with the myths, created legends, turned the social order topsy-turvy.
"We laugh, tell stories and create legends about the shared experience of watching drunken acts and fights," she says.
Because new factors ("3" and "darkblue") are created on the fly and mapped inside the ggplot call (regardless of whether you wanted it or not), ggplot automatically creates legends for size and color, as seen in Figure 2a.
Botham hit six sixes and his principal victim was Dennis Lillee, who later said that it was a clearly superior innings to the one that created legend at Headingley.
As China debates why its national football team's performance is so dismal, the state news agency Xinhua has warned that the country has little chance of creating football legends in an environment full of gambling, fraud, greed and ignorance.
