Things That Go Bump In The Bog
6 min readAug 31, 2023
Examining the Ritual Evidence of a Lost Civilization’s Sacrificial Rites
Spectral mists swirl silently over the lifeless black waters, shrouding the twisted forms of long-dead trees and concealing the secrets of a bog’s murky depths. Somewhere below lie the remains of a young girl, cast into this bleak place over 2,500 years ago as a ritual sacrifice, her life offered up in pagan ritual by a forgotten people…