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Full Moon: Fertility & sacrifice

An engraving of a very large cage shaped like a human, filled with humans, capped by a lifelike male head. Fire is beneath.
18th century illustration by Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant depicting a common interpretation of what a pagan Celtic "wicker man" sacrifice would look like.

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