The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 31
vilisa-tion led to a modificationbut not to a direct aboli-tion of human sacrifices. We find among more advancedsavages, and even at the dawn of a higher civilisation, apractice whereby the victim, be it a child, a virgin, or ayouth is offered up without slaughtering, and has a chanceeither to… … Human Sacrifice Among the Greeks.[Polyxena dies by the hand of Neopto-lemus on the tomb of Achilles,—Afttr anancient cavieo in Berlin.^ DEVIL WORSHIP. 13 childs head, of Susano, in Japanese folk-lore, who slewthe eight-headed serpent that annually devoured one ofthe daughters of a poor peasant, and…
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