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The names literally mean "pig-slaughtering" (svinja=pig, n., klanje=slaughter, n.). It is a custom specific to the parts of the countries in the Pannonian plain. [15] After WWII, in Yugoslavia, a state holiday fell on 29 November, with that and next day being non-working, so most slaughters were held on that occasion. In Croatian region ...
The suovetaurilia was an ancient Roman sacrifice where in which a pig, sheep, and a bull were sacrificed. There were two kinds: [4] suovetaurilia lactentia ("suckling suovetaurilia") of a male pig, a lamb and a calf, for purifying private fields; suovetaurilia maiora ("greater suovtaurilia") of a boar, a ram and a bull, for public ceremonies. [5]
A slaughterhouse is being accused of illegal slaughtering methods after an animal rights group released undercover video this week. Livestock slaughtered at Quality Pork Processors is used by ...
Painting of Saint Anthony with a pig in background by Piero di Cosimo c. 1480. Pigs, widespread in societies around the world since Neolithic times, have been used for many purposes in art, literature, and other expressions of human culture.
Animal sacrifice was general among the ancient Near Eastern civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia, as well as the Hebrews (covered below).Unlike the Greeks, who had worked out a justification for keeping the best edible parts of the sacrifice for the assembled humans to eat, in these cultures the whole animal was normally placed on the fire by the altar and burned, or ...
Czech writer-director Adam Martinec has taken on a near-sacred Bohemian ritual in his Karlovy Vary Film Festival Official Competition world premiere “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter.” The annual ...
Vegetarians might want to give Adam Martinec’s funny, poignant “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter” a wide berth. Meat-eaters, however, should have fewer qualms. Indeed, there’s a case to be made ...
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