The word "dump" is associated with most of us with piles of garbage. In fact, the word originally meant Slavic pagan ritual, carried out on the night of the holiday of Ivan Kupala. Christian tradi ¬ tion annals of this concept in a number of sins for which Gro ¬ ZIL excommunication. It is now called this concept? ,

In the ancient temple there is a statue of the god and his al ¬ tar, but a large part of the ritual, namely the ritual burned ¬ Niya, occurred before the house in the open. There is one ¬ governmental temple in Rome, where they could perform the ritual burning of the victims inside the building - is the Pantheon. Why it was possible to burn victims?
In the dome of the Pantheon is a large hole (ancient ¬ tion believed that the victims reach the gods in the form of smoke).

Among the Jews there are two types of circumcision. One of ¬ scheizvesten, but what of it is fundamentally different on a number ¬ "brisitse"?
Circumcision of girls.

The ancient Persians believed that the soul of the deceased after his death, moved to the dog. Therefore, they have the dogs were in the greatest esteem and always their "invited Lee to the bedside of the dying. And that the Persians did, that the process of "displacement" was a more reliable and quality governmental?
Give up the body to be eaten by dogs (only after it first ¬ buried bones).

In the tests related to rites of initiation, a Spartan boy was supposed to demonstrate the ability to fight with weapons and without a complex with ¬ native conditions, show the power of hands and feet, bringing pv ¬ kovoditelnitse killed animal testing. Only after these tests, he had the right to add the name given him at birth father, an honorary title. At ¬ Call him.
Heracles.

Some wealthy citizens of Haiti, fearing ¬ Yas Bokor, cover the graves of their deceased relatives ¬ nicks heavy concrete slab. In other families, pre ¬ revere bury in the backyard of a house or public place, and those that are poorer, have a guard by turns of word ¬ ly, until the body begins to decompose. And what can be done Bokor, if not take these precautions?
Dig a corpse and make him a zombie (on the island of Haiti Bokor - a sorcerer).