Human sacrifice
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human-sacrifice-205-9311014
title:
Human sacrifice
text:
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure, spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Closely related practices found in some tribal societies are cannibalism and headhunting
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ritualistic killing, usually as an offering
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
date created:
2002-09-04T06:48:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T07:09:13Z
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