Human sacrifice

Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a religious ritual. Human sacrifice has been practiced in various cultures throughout history. Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods, spirits or the deceased, for example as a propitiatory offering, or as a retainer sacrifice when the King's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Closely related practices found in some tribal societies are cannibalism and headhunting. By the Iron Age, with the associated developments in religion (the Axial Age), human sacrifice was becoming less common throughout the Old World, and came to be looked down upon as barbaric in pre-modern times (Classical Antiquity). In the New World, however, human sacrifice continued to be widespread to varying degrees until the European colonization of the Americas.

In modern times, even the practice of animal sacrifice has virtually disappeared from all major religions (or has been re-cast in terms of ritual slaughter), and human sacrifice has become extremely rare. Most religions condemn the practice, and present-day secular laws treat it as murder. In a society which condemns human sacrifice, the term ritual murder is used.

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'Bones discovered in Holika Dahan ashes': Bihar man beheaded, burned in human sacrifice; severed head found in field

The Times of India 29 Mar 2025
In a gruesome case of human sacrifice, a 65-year-old man was allegedly murdered as part of a tantrik ritual and his torso was burned in a Holika Dahan fire in Aurangabad district ... in a tantrik ritual.
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Human sacrifice: Elderly man beheaded & burned in Aurangabad

The Times of India 28 Mar 2025
In a gruesome case of human sacrifice, a 65-year-old man was allegedly murdered as part of a tantrik ritual and his torso was burned in a Holika Dahan fire in Aurangabad district ... in a tantrik ritual.
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Family Seeks Justice over Killing of Daughters for Ritual in Rivers

This Day 27 Mar 2025
The State Police Command had confirmed the gruesome murder of the minors, Chizaram and Chidinma Ohuche by suspected rituals at Ogbodo road, Rukpokwu axis of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
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Six burned human skulls found in cemetery in Namakkal

The Times of India 25 Mar 2025
Suresh, a local resident, said.'An inquiry is underway to ascertain whether six individuals were murdered and incinerated, or if practitioners of ...
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Trump can’t deport Columbia undergraduate pro-Palestinian activist, Jewish judge rules

Jewish Telegraph Agency 25 Mar 2025
In 2012, she ruled on a case involving metzitza b’peh, a controversial Jewish circumcision ritual. Earlier that year, she presided over a mock trial of King David for rape and murder, held at a suburban New York City synagogue ... -- ... ....
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Life let me carve my own path, and it has been a hell of a ...

Hindustan Times 23 Mar 2025
Five young girls, an infant, and four women had been murdered in a tribal village, their blood extracted for a tantric ritual. “Vijay Tendulkar suggested I play Ruhi—the mistress who initiated the ritual murders,” she recalled.
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Combating Witch hunts and Ritual Attacks

This Day 21 Mar 2025
... human head, and Dolapo Babalola who allegedly murdered his intimate friend and five other persons for rituals ... People who attack and kill other humans for rituals murder these persons for nothing.
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Peter Beinart Thinks He Is a ‘Good Jew’ — The Truth Is Anything But

The Algemeiner 17 Mar 2025
... of deep-seated and defining criminality in the Jews” as Theobald of Cambridge, a Jewish convert to Christianity who leveled the first known accusation that Jews ritually murder Christian children.
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Secret Societies and psychology warfare - Chapter 024 The Alchemy of Ritual Murder

Bitchute 16 Mar 2025
Go to the source via the article link to view the video or click the video icon ....
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Fact-Checking Europa: The Last Battle | Part One, by Keith Woods

The Unz Review 15 Mar 2025
... shops after the murder of the Romanovs ... Since it’s not proof for a Jewish ritual murder of Hitler, it only shows that Jews of the time had a similar hatred for the Tsar as they later did for Hitler.
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Trump administration's hypocrisy that it's fighting antisemitism

Newsday 14 Mar 2025
Claims that Frank was guilty and that the crime was a ritual murder have circulated widely on the antisemitic fringe.
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Here's what Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa is up to after bail in Renukaswamy murder case

Pinkvilla 12 Mar 2025
Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa is all set to resume work after getting bail in the Renukaswamy murder case and was spotted seeking blessings at a temple ... This article contains information regarding the murder and death of an individual.
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Two Ahmadis among nine booked in ‘murder case’ in Bahawalnagar

Dawn 11 Mar 2025
He said that booking them in a fake murder case for performing their rituals “was a violation of human rights and the country’s Constitution, which allowed them to freely practice their faith”.
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