While many anime series feature the trope of one character making some sort of grand sacrifice, there are some in the medium that stand out as the greatest anime sacrifices of all time ...
A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...
In court documents released last year, the then-50-year-old local man maintained his innocence of the 2017 killings and instead claimed that the murders were carried out by a pagan cult hijacked ...
Of all the Irish customs that may or may not have been rooted in pagan origin, it is astonishing to consider that blood sacrifice was practiced in Ireland well into living memory. St Martin’s ...
In fact, he impels Jews to take part in pagan sacrifices and eat non-kosher food. In the Temple, Antiochus sets up an idol of Zeus, the "abomination of desolation" (1:54). Mattathias, a zealous ...
as Christians know what is necessary to please God and that the ultimate sacrifice has already been completed through Jesus. It was the lack of understanding of the true God that led many pagan and ...