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…in preparation for the sacrifice and the expedition, choose by lot and send forth a sufficient number of envoys in a correspondingly sufficient number of ships, putting aboard a large…

…So some fairy traditions (often associated with White Ladies) around the parish of Lew Trenchard as well as ghostly pigs (remnants of a foundation sacrifice? Celtic Boar deities?)’ Thanks Invisible!…

…pray, if you cross fingers then please do so, if you sacrifice goats, then we’ll cover the transport expenses and any parking fees… Anyway, in celebration of Mrs B flight…

…be sacrificed, brought forth a lamb in the midst of the temple. Moreover, (5) the eastern gate of the inner [court of the] temple, which was of brass, and vastly…

…thought that he could scare him into selling it at a sacrifice. After his explanation he was given 20 lashes and warned to leave the neighborhood. Johnson is a wealthy…

…the cross. He reflected two years upon the mode of executing his project, and occupied himself in preparing instruments for his sacrifice. At length, the day arrives. Lovat crowns himself…

…Sam Kydd who would later become a celebrated comic actor. And, it was just as well that they did not re-enact the Alamo: their sacrifice would have been in vain…

…‘I would rather be a slave in a landless household than Lord of all the dead!’ – they heightened a warrior’s sacrifice in the here and now, as men with…

…pre-Christian medieval populations. Was the scin originally a deity or was it a monster? Did the locals sacrifice to appease it? Or did they work charms against it? No one…

…zombis.’ ‘No, no! It was not a dead body the witches had animated to sacrifice and eat. No one else made Hamlet’s dead father walk. He did it himself.’ ‘Dead…

…it wasn’t worth enough to sacrifice all those troops who were needed elsewhere, and because the Irish Sea formed a natural barrier against a disorganized bunch of ferocious tribesmen who,…

…she said that every time she let one of them go free she must sacrifice a limb to the devil, and she used to offer the limb of an animal;…

…the point is controversial) were sacrificed to the gods. But this involved having your heart ripped out at the end of the match (or as Beach suggested in his previous…

…of their struggle and sacrifice: and it was only natural that in 1861, when Italy was finally born, that the government in Turin, then Florence, then finally Rome should have…

…drbeachcombing At yahoo DOT com Serbia (with apologies) is sacrificed and the First World War is avoided in 1914: of course, it would have come sooner or later… Germany is…