Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Lambs Are Slaughtered as Sacrifice [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Lambs Are Slaughtered as Sacrifice

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of Bulgarians, members of the Greek Catholic church, who had begun the observance of the feast of spring. The proper observance of this custom, it* was learned, was for the sacrifice of four lambs annually. After the lambs were Wiled the carcasses were piled upon a fire and roasted, the meat of which was devoured her members of the church aa fulfilling their part of the saartfiCe. - - : -• — After the slaughter of the second lamb the remaining two were taken to a vacant house near by, where they met the fate of the others. These also were roasted upon the fire' tp the tri* cant lot. *