In other versions he is a serpent or dragon who takes possession of the springs of water, and only allows the water to flow or the people to make use of it on condition of receiving a human victim.
At Rome a shegoat was sacrificed to Vedijovis as if it were a human victim.
Or more probably the legend may be a reminiscence of a custom of slaying a human victim, perhaps a representative of the corn-spirit, and distributing his flesh or scattering his ashes over the fields to fertilise them.
Frazer writes, "annually sacrificed a human victim in spring when they sowed their fields.
And, human life being at stake, no preventive could be more effective than the offering up of a human victim.
It was then suggested at last by some one that a human victim should be offered in sacrifice to Heaven, and prayer be made for rain, to which T'ang replied, "If a man must be the victim I will be he.
Before going to war, or before the beginning of a battle, or during a siege, the Greeks offered a human victim to ensure victory.
Or the legend may be a reminiscence of the custom of slaying a human victim (probably considered as a representative of the corn-spirit) and distributing his flesh or scattering his ashes over the fields to fertilise them.
The Pawnees annually sacrificed a human victim in spring when they sowed their fields.
At most a few villages may have clubbed together, as amongst the Khonds, to procure a human victim to be slain as representative of the corn-spirit for their common benefit.
After the suppression of the human sacrifices, inferior victims were substituted in some places; for instance, in the capital of Chinna Kimedy a goat took the place of a human victim.
The animal is, of course, a substitute for a human victim, just as the bottle and coins are the modern substitute for the live beast.
At Aix-la-Chapelle, as we have seen, a wolf took the place of a human victim: at Frankfort a cock.
The evil one expects a human victim, and is put off with a wolf, or a dog, or a cock.
At Rome a she-goat was sacrificed to Vedijovis as if it were a human victim.
M201) The Pawnees annually sacrificed a human victim in spring when they sowed their fields.
The rest of his body is covered by the representation of the skin of a human victim, of a greyish colour, quite distinct from that of the wearer, and this skin is also worn like a mask on his face.
M234 The personation of a god by a man wearing the skin of a human victim is probably intended to represent and ensure the resurrection of the deity.
Groaning hostages" were placed under a fort in Ireland, and the foundation of the palace of Emain Macha was also laid with a human victim.
The Marimos kill and burn a human victim, and scatter the ashes on the ground to fertilise it.
Often she besets a city and demands the daily tribute of a human victim.
Here the cocoanut is symbolical of a sacrifice which was probably originally of a human victim.
As in many other places the cocoa-nut represents the head of a human victim, which in olden times was the proper offering.
Their method of sacrificing a human victim is to put him into the cleft of a tree, where he is squashed, or into fire.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human victim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
