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exposethecriminals ago

I found a reference to the occult ritual of putting children's blood in mortar:

Another inveterate custom of heathendom which still obtains among savage nations, was the custom of mixing the blood of a child with the mortar of a new building, or walling one up alive in the masonry. Christianity struggled long with this revolting rite, and at length succeeded in substituting the burial of a horse or lamb, or the slaying of a cock.

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think- ago

Interesting. From which book is this excerpt, @exposethecriminals?

I was only familiar with the habit of burying a cat (dead or alive) in the wall. Which is gruesome enough, of course.

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exposethecriminals ago

It came up as a Google books result: The Homilectic Magazine, July 1884

Link - click on Page 115

13Buddha ago

Could that be "homoleptic"? If so, defintion from Wikipedia: - a chemical compound in a metal compound with all ligands (an ion or molecule attached to a metal atom) identical. Using the word "homo" prefix to indicate that something is the same for all.

exposethecriminals ago

In the link for the magazine in my comment if you click on "About this book," then click on the cover, you see it's homiletic as in homilies, not homilectic -- sorry:

The Homiletic Magazine, Vol. XI, No. 51, July 1884

13Buddha ago

Makes sense, thanks!