References in Popular Culture
- In Fruit Chan's Dumplings, fetuses are consumed with the belief of their rejuvenating properties.
- Japanese rock band Dir en grey's song "Umbrella" is about the act of child cannibalism.
- In Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, a father and son encounter a family that consumes a fetus.
- In the popular comedy Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, the character Fat Bastard is known for his obsession of eating infants.
- In an episode of South Park, Christopher Reeve is shown eating fetuses in order to regain his mobility as well as to seemingly become stronger (in satirical reference to his acting roles as Superman, his real-life paralysis, and subsequent advocacy for foetal stem cell research).
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