A YOUTH SACRIFICED
TO HINDU RAIN GOD. 25 MEN ON TRIAL. LONDON, September 13. “The Times” Delhi correspondent says: The sacrifice of a seventeen-year-old youth to propitiate the Rain God, led to a trial for manslaughter of twenty-five men, including a priest and village headman in Sirmoor. Witnesses allege that the villagers exhibited a chained youth in a procession and announced with beats of drums he was going to be sacrificed, after which he was beheaded on a sacrificial altar, amid devotional songs. Later, the police found a human head at the foot of a deity in the village temple.
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Grey River Argus, 15 September 1937, Page 7
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100A YOUTH SACRIFICED Grey River Argus, 15 September 1937, Page 7
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