Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group...

of the danger posed by witch doctors abducting for the purpose of child sacrifice. Witch doctors, who also identify as traditional healers, will consult...

(24 March – 12 April) similarly involved child sacrifice. During this festival, the children were sacrificed in caves. The flayed skins of sacrificial...

archaeological records and in written sources. The exact ideologies behind child sacrifice in different pre-Colombian cultures are unknown but it is often thought...

sacrifices were of young adults or children. The Phoenicians of Carthage were reputed to practise child sacrifice, and though the scale of sacrifices...

Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public...

opportunity to teach humankind, once and for all, that human sacrifice, child sacrifice, is not acceptable. This is precisely how the sages of the Talmud...

were buried. There is a long-running scholarly debate about whether child sacrifice occurred at these locations, as suggested by Greco-Roman and biblical...

sometimes referred to as child sacrifice, though not equivalent to the religious variety. It may also refer to the use of children as child soldiers or saboteurs...

sacrifice of every tenth child during difficult times. Many remains of children have been found in Gezer excavations with signs of sacrifice. Child skeletons...

collapse unless the body of a human sacrifice was buried in its foundations and that the watchman is actually a human sacrifice, who will then watch over the...

that are associated with Moloch, which are heavily implied to include child sacrifice. Traditionally, the name Moloch has been understood as referring to...

such as the bones of children sacrificed at the Tophet to the goddess Tanit in Phoenician Carthage, and also child sacrifice in ancient Syria-Palestine....

A late charge of the imputed sacrifice is found by the North African bishop Tertullian, who says that child sacrifices were still carried out, in secret...

in a ritual involving "passing a child through the fire", most likely child sacrifice. Traditionally, the sacrifices have been ascribed to a god named...

those who then exploit their bodies for their own purposes? Child sacrifice – the sacrifice (and sometimes consumption) of children in religious contexts...

Deuteronomy 32:17. In both instances, the text deals with child sacrifice or animal sacrifice. Although the word is traditionally derived from the root...

fought without clothing and perpetrated numerous atrocities, including child sacrifice and cannibalism. Blahyi abandoned his life as a warlord and turned...

pointing towards child sacrifice forming part of the worship of Tanit and Baal Hammon. Some archaeologists theorized that infant sacrifices have occurred...

HMS Thunder Child is a fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of...

evidence they produced for child sacrifice. There has been considerable disagreement among scholars concerning whether child sacrifice was practiced by ancient...

with the execution of the emperor Atahualpa by conquering Spaniards. Child sacrifice, referred to as capacocha or qhapaq hucha, was an important part of...

lies in the fact that the only written sources reporting the rite of child sacrifice are all foreign to the city of Carthage. As for the archaeological...

sacrifice in the Levant remains sparse. Accounts of child sacrifice in Carthage date the practice to the city's founding in about 814 BC. Sacrificing...

the motivations and situations surrounding parricide events change as a child matures. As per the Parricide Prevention Institute, approximately 2–3% of...

quinoa, capsicum, potatoes, and terrestrial meat. Before the child was chosen for the sacrifice, his diet was primarily marine-based. The presence of achiote...

Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving the killing of humans or animals, or bloodletting by members of the community, in rituals...

The Altamira child emasculations refers to a series of crimes that occurred in the municipality of Altamira, in Pará, Brazil, which involved boys aged...

The Canaanite god Moloch was the recipient of child sacrifice according to the account of the Hebrew Bible, as well as Greco-Roman historiography on the...

a yearly basis. No region was exempt from the recruitment of these child sacrifices; they could come from any region of the empire. The male victims were...