YOUTH SACRIFICED
TO HINDU RAIN GOD. 25 MEN FACE MURDER CHARGE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). 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 heats of drums he was going to be sacrificed, after which he was beheaded on a sacrificial altar, amid devotional songs. Later, ihe police found a human head at the foot of a deity in the village temple.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1937, Page 5
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