The pagan practice, called bot, of Germans to sacrifice animals and humans to appease the deities. Widows were often sacrificed when their husbands died. Engraving ...

Not found in: G.B. Pezzini, S. Massari, S.P. Valenti Rodinò, Raphael invenit, Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 1985 ...

She was a follower of Wicca, a pagan religion, and claimed she asked him to help her celebrate a holiday ... “She didn’t list ...

The Orthodox Church today honors the memory of St. Charalambos the Wonderworker,, a revered figure known for his miraculous ...

Thoroughly excavated and well-analyzed cult sites are essential for comprehending the evolving and diverse ritual behaviors of different pre-Christian societies.

ICE agents arrested a Honduran man at his church in Georgia. As Augustine chronicled after the sack of Rome, even the ...

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 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 ...

Saint Anysia is venerated primarily within the Eastern Orthodox Church in regions influenced by Byzantine culture.

Eleanor Anstruther’s keenly observed, quietly devastating satire In Judgement of Others is set in an insular, English ...

He also states that unclean animals were those that were used for pagan sacrifice in other nations. There were even laws about touching the carcass of an unclean animal (it would make the person ...