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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Human Sacrifice A custom still subsisting seems to prove that the Egyptians formerly sacrificed a young virgin to the god of the Nile, for they now make a statue of clay in shape of a girl, which they call the "betrothed bride," and throw it into the river. (Savary.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prediction | Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice, |
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Crosswords: HUMAN SACRIFICE |
| Specialty definitions using "HUMAN SACRIFICE": DRUIDS ♦ Killing-stone ♦ Phocensian Despair. (references) |
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Screenplays | Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) The Waponis believe they need a human sacrifice or their island is going to sink into the ocean. (Joe Versus the Volcano; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A Human sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite [i.e. Tahiti] / Webber, J. del. ; W. & J.(?) Walker, sculp. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Civil Liberties | Kenya | The Commission's widely publicized report included numerous reports of ritual murder, human sacrifice, and cannibalism, and feats of magic allegedly done by using powers acquired through such acts. (references) |
Belarus | In March and April, a State-owned television station presented a series of pseudo-documentaries accusing Protestant churches of engaging in human sacrifice, poisoning children, and other "destructive rituals." In the series, SCRNA officials claimed that Protestant groups were undermining the authority of the government, and needed to be banned from the country. (references) | |
Economic History | El Salvador | Early in their history, they became one of the few Mesoamerican Indian groups to abolish human sacrifice. (references) |
Minorities | Cote d'Ivoire | However, there have been no reports of human sacrifice in the country since well before independence. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Many leaders of religions, such as Christianity or Islam, look down on practitioners of traditional indigenous religions as pagans, practitioners of black magic or human sacrifice. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Nigeria | The eastern part of Nigeria and some southern states such as Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom have been the sites of trafficking of children for labor and, in some cases, human sacrifice. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not disdain to employ the humble allurement of human sacrifice. Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith. Pliny says their religion, originating in Britain, spread eastward as far as Persia. Caesar says those who desired to study its mysteries went to Britain. Caesar himself went to Britain, but does not appear to have obtained any high preferment in the Druidical Church, although his talent for human sacrifice was considerable. Druids performed their religious rites in groves, and knew nothing of church mortgages and the season-ticket system of pew rents. They were, in short, heathens and -- as they were once complacently catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England -- Dissenters. |
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Expression using "HUMAN SACRIFICE": by the entrails of a human sacrifice. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
human sacrifice | 38 |
aztec human sacrifice | 28 |
celtic human sacrifice | 3 |
human sacrifice satanic | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "HUMAN SACRIFICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 人身御供 (victim), 人柱 (human pillar). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとばしら (human pillar), ひとみ"くう (victim). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | umanhay acrificesay människooffer. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-f-h-i-i-m-n-r-s-u" | |
-4 letters: muscarinic, naumachies, saccharine. | |
-5 letters: anarchies, anarchism, carnifies, chairmans, characins, chicaners, chimaeras, chimaeric, craunches, crucifies, firemanic, fisherman, franchise, franciums, ischaemia, manicures, mariachis, mechanics, mischance, muscarine, saccharin, sacrifice, sharifian, urinemias. | |
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