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Ref NoDEP/RIJ/8/57
TitleArticle relating to incidents of human sacrifice in Lopnitza, Bulgaria, to end a drought
Date23 Aug 1927
Description Of ItemClipped folio from the Daily Mail in a scrapbook from the collection of John Ritchie, relating to an incident of human sacrifice where four people in the village of Lopnitza in Bulgaria were shot by consensus of a village court to improve a persistent drought. The charges were for adultery, selling counterfeit goods, bearing false witness, and teaching gambling to youths.
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