Human sacrifice to the Durga of the Vindhyas occurs often in Indian folk-lore.
Another plan is to spit at the hail as it falls, or to sprinkle the hailstones with blood drawn from some famous magician, a rite which can hardly be anything but a survival of human sacrifice.
Her shrine has evil associations with traditions of human sacrifice, derived from the coarser aboriginal cultus which has now been adopted into Brahmanism.
The abrogation of human sacrifice was a reform of great moment: in Mexico it is ascribed to the god Quetzalcoatl,[1474] and in the Old Testament to Abraham acting by command of God.
Nor can circumcision be explained as an attenuated survival of human sacrifice.
In the case of human sacrificethere is doubtless a civilized repugnance to the act, which is clearly seen in many passages where the slaughter of man is made purely symbolical.
Human sacrifice at these rites is said to be extinct at the present day.
Some of the Khonds worship the sun-god; some the earth-goddess, and ascribe to her all success and power, while they hold particularly to human sacrifice in her honor.
I do not think the Allies will pay the price in human sacrifice to invade Germany from the west.
There is no powerful organization over nations to keep the peace of Europe or of the world, as nations are in organization over states, and states over cities, to insure peace and justice, without strife or human sacrifice.
It might be much more timely for them to circulate photographs showing the horrors and atrocities of human sacrifice in this most audacious war.
Of human sacrifice there is only one ancient instance; there are no rites with anything savage or cruel about them.
Human sacrifice was an acknowledged feature of it; divination was carried to absurd lengths, one great branch of it consisting in the prediction of the future from the appearance of the entrails of slaughtered animals.
As we see from the story of Abraham offering up Isaac, it was thought that Jehovah might demand human sacrifice, and instances of such sacrifice actually occur in the records.
Doubtless, the man Inaguy was speaking only idle words when he said that our Lord Anamac forbade human sacrifice henceforth.
The story relates that Deva Pandya, a merchant of the Pandya kingdom, once had some new ships built, but before they put to sea, the demon Kundodara demanded a human sacrifice.
The following account of a peculiar form of human sacrifice by the Koravas in former days was given to Mr. C.
As recently as 1902, a petition was presented to the District Magistrate of Ganjam, asking him to sanction the performance of a human sacrifice.
The horrid pictures of human sacrifice as represented by the Spanish chroniclers, also by the letters and despatches of Cortez, we do not credit, though undoubtedly they had some foundation in truth.
In the same way also when they learn that there is any contagious disease, or fear death, several of them assemble and make a human sacrifice, asking the devil to let them live, since they generously offer him that victim.
A deity whom we shall probably have to call F, the god of human sacrifice, is sitting on a stepped pyramidal structure (a teocalli as a place of sacrifice?
The only known or alleged instance of human sacrifice at the Saturnalia follows.
This evidence is an inference from a presumed survival ofhuman sacrifice to Cronos, who certainly received many such offerings.
Mr. Frazer is, I think, rather easily satisfied with this kind of testimony to human sacrifice.
Abraham is praised because he offered up Isaac, that is, that he was ready and willing to offer a human sacrifice to "the Lord" similar to that which was actually offered by Jephthah.
The doctrine of human sacrifice is one of the holy mysteries of Christianity, as taught in the Old and New Testament.
It suggests the important role that animal sacrifice played in history in weaning mankind from the habit of human sacrifice.
The sad and degrading side of the Aztec civilization was that of human sacrifice.
His companion, god F, the god of war, of human sacrifice and of violent death in battle, apparently a counterpart of the Aztec Xipe, who will be discussed farther on.
Mention should also be made of the realistic representations of the vulture, eating the eye of a human sacrifice (Dr.
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