Pagans in northern Europe's Baltic region imported horses from neighboring Christian countries during the late medieval period to sacrifice in funeral rituals, a study has revealed. The research ...

A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

As prominent missionary texts spelled out, to have pre-Christian groups convert to Christianity, they would need to stop worshiping pagan gods and cease the sacrifice of the so-called “devil’s ...

In fact, he impels Jews to take part in pagan sacrifices and eat non-kosher food. In the Temple, Antiochus sets up an idol of Zeus, the "abomination of desolation" (1:54). Mattathias, a zealous ...