GODDESS OF SMALLPOX
THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS SACRIFICED GHASTLY SCENE IN INDIAN TOWN Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright* CALCUTTA, June 18. (Received June 19, at 12.35 p.m.)’ Despite protests by the Press and the public anotbei mass sacrifice of animals was carried out at Ellore. Thousands of animals were slaughtered in the streets in propitiation of the goddess of smallpox, who refused to be appeased when 6,000 were thus sacrificed, on May 25. The streets reeked of blood, and the whole town presented a ghastly ap pearance. Carcases were everywhere'.
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Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 8
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88GODDESS OF SMALLPOX Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 8
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