I am having one of those days, and today that day is one of those which involves trying to come up with a great long list of creatures (probably mythological or folkloric) which are particularly associated with biting or human-eating (most often corpses, but I am willing to be flexible).
Off the top of my head:
- Ghouls. I don’t feel this one needs elaboration, except to point out that I do not mean D&D ghouls.
- Redcaps, if the terrible bite schtick actually predates White Wolf’s Changeling: The Dreaming. I can’t actually find a cite for that (yet), and simply having huge teeth doesn’t count.
- Aswangs. Creatures from Filipino folklore that eat human meat–corpses, but also the living, or unborn fetuses.
(Fetusii? >googles< No, fetuses. Right, then–carry on.) - Zombies, the movie version. (The light of my life actually had to point this one out to me. I have no idea why.)
- Werewolves, not because the bite is (sometimes) infectious, but strictly for the killing and eating of humans when it shows up. Also a hat-tip to CS Lewis and the classic line “Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy’s body and bury it with me.”
- Related to that, the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. Not one I would have initially thought of, but the swallowing of bodies whole and in such rapid succession is impressive, even if they were alive. I may be being swayed by the fact that in some versions of the story, LRRH is actually called “Red Cap”.
- Wendigos. Which I also do not feel needs elaboration.
Vampires specifically do not count, because of all the surviving/not noticing of the bite (at least the first time) and the distinction between drinking and eating.
Anything else coming to mind?