SACRIFICE TO INDIAN RAIN GOD
BEHEADING OF YOUTH LEADS TO MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE LONDON, September 13. The Delhi correspondent of The Times says that the sacrifice of a youth, aged 17, to propitiate the rain god led to'the trial for manslaughter of 25 men, including a priest and the village headman, in Sirmoor. Witnesses alleged that the villagers exhibited a chained youth in a procession and announced, with beats of a drum, that 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 the deity in the village temple. ________
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Southland Times, Issue 23306, 16 September 1937, Page 9
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