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…with the ultimate sacrifice, followed dutifully by her body slave. (A truly awful and sorrowful scene.) I wonder: was such self-sacrifice in payment for a curse actually practiced?’ Thanks PP!…

…270–72) and Þiðranda þáttr ok Þorhalls (ÓTM II 150); and in a sermon in Hauksbók (1892–6: 167), women are forbidden to offer sacrifices to nature spirits living in stones. Sacrifice…

…that a wound in flesh could only be healed with a consummate sacrifice, the flesh of an animal? We know of Álfablót or elven sacrifices from several Scandinavian sources, but…

…Iceman Died R) Human and Cat Sacrifice in Iceland S) Prehistoric Body Piercing T) The Minds Behind Cave Painting U) Neanderthals and Climate Change V) Operation Mincemeat Remembered W) History…

…case. There are 159 wreaths and over 2,000 pieces of jewelry containing, or made of, human hair dating before 1900… According to Cohoon, ‘It could possibly be the only hair…

…great many times – probably everybody he knew was thoroughly sick of it. Human memory is a funny thing, and tales grow in the telling! I’m particularly puzzled as to…

…asylum!) Next, Carter praised the Polish Constitution of 1791 as one of the three great eighteenth-century monuments to human rights. Instead, Seymour gave the impression that Carter was ridiculing the…

…this condition the body is given back to the family, who have a wooden case made, shaped like a human figure, into which it is put. Herodotus probably gets some…

…ate a king’s heart) visited the Cremorne Gardens to examine Frog Man. We learn more from this account than from any other. First, the aquarium: A huge human aquarium (for…

…Black death was mainly spread human to human (perhaps by fleas or lice). However, there is now a supplementary theory, courtesy of some scholars at Oslo university, to push the…

…where the word “woman” often signified the passionate, the disorderly, the violent and chaotic side of human nature, temporary assumption of women’s identity by men was fraught with significance. Recent…

…to point out that grafting the skin of a dog or bear onto a human being is quite impossible, a fact which was not known in 1892. The human immune…

Human beings have long showed remarkable ingenuity at getting rid of their fellow human beings, especially perhaps human beings that they do not like. Once the cannon was invented it…

…three or four thousand years of human endeavour: a sculpture of a lady and her pet. At this point, readers should take a moment and just enjoy the jarring horror…

…we know why these humans are such trouble, they reported. Humans have no more will than these ants we are riding around on. They are giant meat ants. The little…