I was blind to drinking blood counting as cannibalism.
I guess the term I should have been searching on is "Anthropophagi"
Thank you so very much!
Now I have "yum yum is yam yam" running through my head
On mappae mundi, they're designated as anthropophagi. The Old English Wonders of the East features man-eating monsters known as the donestre; they put a particularly emo spin on their consumption of human flesh:
Then there is a certain island in the Red Sea where there is a race of people that is, among us, called Donestre. They are grown like soothsayers from the head to the navel, and the other part is like a human, and they know human speech. When they see a person of foreign race they call out to him and his kinsmen the names of familiar men and with false words they seduce him and seize him and after that they eat him, all except the head. And then they sit and weep over that head.
Yes. Why eat now what you can enslave horribly (and maybe eat parts of gradually)?
On the other hand, faeries acting out antisemitic tropes... probably looking like cartoonishly antisemitic descriptions of Jews with massive noses and so forth, hopefully enough that players will see what is going on.
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There are anthropophagi in 5e - pages 119 - 120 of Between Sand and Sea. They're magical beings who need to commit periodic cannabilism to avoid acclimation.
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I think it's inevitable that such would caricatures exist in Mythic Europe, of several groups, and best not to deeply consider it.
Not just ethnic groups, but also class caricatures of aristocrats, clergy, peasants, townfolk, and so on.
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Actually, that's what a fair number of faerie stories are anyway: overly glamourous nobles, exceptionally grimy and twisted peasants, and so on.
Just make it a demon pretending to be a Jew to stir hatred between two Dominion-aniding communities and it fits perfectly with a Mythic Europe theme, however.
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