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ritual murder

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ritual murder
n.
1. The murder of a person as a human sacrifice to a deity.
2. A murder committed in such a way as to resemble a sacrifice to a deity.


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From this trauma came a passion for revenge that in some cases led to responses, among them ritual murder of Christian children.
In March, 16-year-old banana hawker Awwalu Baffa confessed to a Kano court of working for ritualists to abduct children for ritual murders.
Byline: Pat Flanagan HUMAN sacrifice was a practice carried out to appease false gods and usually involved a bloody ceremony ending with the ritual murder of the victim.
 
 
 
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