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Human Sacrifice
A custom still subsisting seems to prove that the Egyptians
formerly sacrificed a young virgin to the god of the Nile, for they now
make a statue of clay in shape of a girl, which they call the
“betrothed bride,” and throw it into the river. (Savary.)
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