History’s Hidden Corners

“Bog Bodies: Sacrifice Beneath the Peat”


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The bog was not a grave. It was a threshold, a sacred border between worlds. And the people placed there were not discarded; they were offered. But these were not murders in the modern sense. Archaeologists believe many were ritual offerings, lives given to restore balance, to appease unseen forces, to hold a fragile world together.

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History’s Hidden CornersBy Amy Burtt