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Last meal of sacrificial bog body
Discussion in 'Other News' started by Chinatown, Jul 20, 2021.
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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. -
Why is it assumed they were sacrificed? Did I miss something in the article?
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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.
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It is also plausible that these were simply excecutions of criminals -
what a waste of a perfectly good lava flow.Wasted Thyme and buzzarddriver Thank this.
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