Last meal of sacrificial bog body

Discussion in 'Other News' started by Chinatown, Jul 20, 2021.

  1. Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.

  2. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

    68,027
    142,274
    Aug 28, 2011
    Henderson, NV & Orient
    0
    Bog bodies don't decompose because there's no oxygen in bogs.
    One was found that was 4000 years old and still looked like it recently died.
     
  3. N00bLaLoosh

    N00bLaLoosh Road Train Member

    1,027
    8,023
    May 13, 2021
    Novi, MI
    0
    Why is it assumed they were sacrificed? Did I miss something in the article?
     
  4. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

    68,027
    142,274
    Aug 28, 2011
    Henderson, NV & Orient
    0
    I thought the same. The title is misleading.
     
  5. buzzarddriver

    buzzarddriver Road Train Member

    3,219
    8,651
    Feb 1, 2011
    Dallas, TX
    0
    I've seen a documentary that said these people bound the victims and threw them in the bogs to ward off the evil spirits which they thought lived there. That could be what they were referring to.
     
  6. skallagrime

    skallagrime Road Train Member

    3,553
    9,061
    Apr 10, 2012
    Indiana
    0
    Because they are usually found in a sack or with a noose around the neck with throat cut, strangled, or blunt force trauma as cause of death (ie, head bashed in)

    It is also plausible that these were simply excecutions of criminals
     
  7. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

    13,439
    34,299
    May 25, 2017
    under a shade tree
    0
    about as bad as sacrificing a virgin to a volcano...

    what a waste of a perfectly good lava flow.
     
    Wasted Thyme and buzzarddriver Thank this.
  • Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.