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Now, a snippet from that 76-minute videotaped encounter — Mr. Bolsonaro’s talk of how he would have eaten an Indigenous person in the Amazon rainforest — has resurfaced as an explosive issue in Sunday’s presidential election.

“I wanted to see the Indian being cooked,” Mr. Bolsonaro said, describing a supposed cannibalism ritual in a remote region of the Amazon. “I’d eat an Indian, no problem at all.”

Supporters of Mr. Bolsonaro’s opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, seized on the comment, drawing comparisons with cannibals real (Jeffrey Dahmer) and fictitious (Hannibal Lecter.)

Memes about Mr. Bolsonaro’s appetite for human flesh proliferated. Mentions of Bolso-Lecter, BolsoDahmer and, yes, Canibalsonaro, flooded social media feeds.

That cannibalism has become such a big conversation topic reflects the campaign’s descent into mudslinging in its final days, punctuated by accusations of freemasonry, devil worship and pedophilia. Mr. da Silva, for his part, has had to publicly rebut claims that he formed a pact with Satan.

[And we thought American politics was nasty … — Ed]