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The Boyne Palace contains some of the most important historic sites and monuments in Ireland, including the massive, ancient passage tombs of Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth, the pagan headquarters ...

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In a shocking verdict, a Suryapet court sentenced B Bharathi to death for the 2021 ritualistic murder of her infant daughter. Bharathi sacrificed her child to supposedly eliminate her 'sarpa ...

The danger of sacrifice was also manifest in the pagan practices of the time, which involved the abomination of human sacrifice. Judaism rejected human sacrifice, or, worse, child sacrifice ...

In the modern era, paganism has been remodeled as a religion of the occult and magic. However, the roots of paganism go back ...

As such, it’s possible that the ancient inhabitants of Başur Höyük chose human sacrifice victims based not on class, but on “ritual associations of youths or ranked age sets” that formed ...

There is also evidence that the very, very wealthy might have been buried with slaves, who were essentially human sacrifices ... According to Norse mythology, the god Odin, with the help of ...

While both cities did practice human sacrifice, this specific burial practice was rare in Tikal but common at Teotihuacan. Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar.