Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…human sacrifice continues in the east to this very day: an excellent book relating to India, the Raj and the persistence of human sacrifice is The Sacrifice of Human Being…

…sneezes, prophets… Beachcombing has many examples of private human sacrifice from antiquity filed away: where the sacrifice of a boy or a slave was carried out under the pliant authority’s…

…are… Humans are pretty ghastly: no news there. The custom while not universal seems to have been used through much of Euro-Asia-Africa and large parts of the Americas. Presumably the…

…is the spiritual origin. The more the behaviour of any specimen differs from true human behaviour, the less human it actually is, regardless of appearances. This makes complex world of…

…and other Mesoamerican peoples sacrificed human beings to their gods. It has also long been known that, of the many methods of sacrifice that were practised, one of the most…

…the world safe” I suppose, and honor ideas and change traditions. The human sacrifices are in the millions. Not that we should go back to occasional human sacrifices. But will…

…Post on the history of foundation sacrifices, which also discusses modern human and animal foundation sacrifices in the Yukon and an historical account of a young girl being walled up…

…a human sacrifice: if he just stumbled on it he was likely in danger. Then, an elderly man is tied up. A series of rituals are carried out. The man…

…quality of fairy-human relations. Fairies take food from humans; humans take fertility from fairies. Fairies steal human babies; humans find fairy babies etc etc. A final thought. In early Irish…

…long article in the Washington Post on the history of foundation sacrifices, which also discusses modern human and animal foundation sacrifices in the Yukon and an historical account of a…

…the sacrifice; and when an investigation was made, some of those who had been sacrificed were discovered to have been supposititious. When they had given thought to these things and…

…where the fairies and demons dwelt. (3) Prehistoric barrows sometimes included sacrifices and therefore the custom of medieval execution was an updated Christian form of sacrifice. Beachcombing is reminded of…

…there was a regular pursuit of some gypsies. This story is interesting because it combines two common themes. First, the idea that certain structures need a human sacrifice (or a…

…honor ideas and change traditions. The human sacrifices are in the millions. Not that we should go back to occasional human sacrifices. But will we ever be able to end…

…to the best of our knowledge there were not other humanoids. Again Beach pleads ignorance, but just how likely is it that non-human humanoids reached the Americas. Aren’t the dates,…