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Thread #157143   Message #3706770
Posted By: GUEST,Dave
06-May-15 - 03:48 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Corn King, Year King
Subject: RE: Folklore: Corn King, Year King
I don't think that there is evidence of human sacrifice (as opposed to capital punishment or ritual murders) in the British Isles for a very long time. The suggestion that we burned people in Wicker Men seems to have been spread by the Roman spin doctor Posidonius, who we might regard as the Lynton Crosby of his day (except that Posidonius also did useful stuff like Mathematics).