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- "Among our people, there is a custom on a young woman’s 15th birthday the whole village should commit ritual suicide"
- "The Ancients teach us at the time of sowing for a villager to give pleasure to the woodland spirits with a blindfolded man"
- "New in town, eh? Well, don't be surprised after menopause to bathe in filth for a week"
- "Strangers often find it curious here at the coronation of a new king or queen the whole village should bathe in filth for forty days and forty nights"
- "It is the custom in this town when a king is killed in battle for a priest to sacrifice a cat"