Tarkan wrote:All political bullshit aside, I've read here and there rumors that the continental Europeans (particularly the Germans and Slavs) would periodically practice child sacrifice when building bridges, buildings, and the like (entombing a living child so it's spirit would protect the structure) up and through at least the 1700s. Of course, I don't think anyone has ever found any of these entombed kids, so probably bullshit, but interesting nonetheless in that they aren't "blood libel" stories like "Jews drinking the blood of children" stuff or the modern Q-anon variants.
The Viking human sacrifices were documented by visiting arabs and quite gruesome. Rape and strangulation after seeing the rotted corpse of their "husband" they had to marry for the afterlife.
Germanic and Celts offered people into bogs. Quite well documented but who know how many were sacrificed who were tossed somewhere other than a bog to be preserved for a few thousand years.
Ancient Britons tossed swords into waters from causways dating back to the Beaker Culture of Europe. The Lady of The Lake giving Arthur Excaliber is probably a remnant of that practice. Wouldn't surprise me if they killed humans or livestock with the sword before chucking it in.
My mother in law sponsored a young girl from this region of Nigeria that practices cannibalism but only on strangers. So while she was bording with her she was worried that someone might try to eat her if she wandered off alone cuz thats what her family would do if they found a stranger. When she was confirmed in the Catholic church she could never return to her village, but it sounds like that is a place one would be glad to be exiled from.
To add to the confusion South Africans always report fake news about Nigerian cannibals mostly to stir up hatred towards the Nigerian immigrants there (they say they are from the north east but the cannibals live in the south east and rarely leave their region unless sponsored by someone.
However Nigerians and Kenyans think Swiss and German people are prone to eating children. Probably some weird story tied to that