A HUMAN SACRIFICE.
, An extraordinary case of human sacrifice lias resulted in sentence of death being passed at Alirzapur, Southern India, on a Hindu named lv'aghuiianilnn. A party of Hindu girls were gntheritifr firewood in Ibo forest when Ihe prisoner rushed at (hem, knocked one of litem down, and drove the others away. •. He picked his victim up, and carried her screaming to » pit which lie had due;. Crying three limes. "Hail. Mahaln'r! Hail. "Black l.ioddcss! Heboid your snefiiice!" lie thrust (ho girl into the pit, rolled stones upon her, and covered hriwilh earth. When the victim's parents arrived Hie prisoner had filled in I lie nil, and was Iraiuping down Hie enrlh. The girl was dead. The' prisoner was found upon examination lo be (|iiile sane, null »'ii< sentenced to death for murder.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19120408.2.90
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1408, 8 April 1912, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
134A HUMAN SACRIFICE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1408, 8 April 1912, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in