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Ritual murder, burnt food, & the afterlife

Eleanor Konik
Sep 27, 2021
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Painting of Sigurd and Brynhild by Charles Butler 1909

I keep coming across references to human sacrifice & sacrifice associated with burials in the academic texts I read. Before I started taking notes I never really realized how many different cultures do it, and now I'm trying to figure out if I should try to integrate it into my worldbuilding. I've seen a couple of books pull it off...

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