>>13987026>they supposedly threw one person a year onto spears to tell zalmoxis what kind of blessings the people wanted. If the person died instantly, that would mean the ritual worked; if not, they needed to repeat it because the sacrifice was corrupt. Or so I have heardThat's what Herodotus report in his histories, iirc they threw mostly war prisoners, but if they ran out of prisoners they'd just sacrifice a member of their tribes. Human sacrifice is prevalent in nearly all the historical polytheistic faiths of the world but it seems like the romans discouraged this practice. According to an ancient legend, Herakles wandered around Italy after conquering Spain and ran into the early Italic tribes performing ritual murder for the Argei rituals. Herakles put an end to the gruesome practice and taught the Italics to replace live victims with straw puppets which were thrown into the Tiber river.
