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"The little children, to whom the light of Christ was revealed in baptism, they violently tore from this light and killed, and adult men, after pulling out their entrails, they sacrifice them to evil spirits and force others to run around trees until death, and some of the priests they blind, from others they brutally sever their hands and other limbs and wrap what is left behind in straws and burn them alive."<ref>toim. Martti Linna: Suomen varhaiskeskiajan lähteitä, s. 64. Historian aitta, 1989. ISBN 951-96006-1-2.</ref>
There have been found bog graves in [[Estonia]] that have been interpreted to have been part of human sacrifice.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchinestonia.eu/2023/09/19/bogs-bones-and-bodies-violent-past-of-northern-european-mires/|title=Bogs, bones and bodies: Violent past of northern European mires|work=Research in Estonia|date=22 January 2024}}</ref> According to Aliis Moora, mostly enemy prisoners of war were sacrificed, the main reason indicated in the ''[[Livonian Chronicle of Henry|Livonian Chronicle]]'' as alleviating crop failure. Sacrifices were also performed as a show of gratitude after a victorious battle. Ritual cannibalism also took place, in order to gain the power of the enemy.<ref name=Jonuks>[https://www.folklore.ee/tagused/nr19/inimohver.pdf Inimohver eesti eelkristlikus usundis. Human Sacrifice in Estonian Pre-Christian Religion]; Author(s): Tõnno Jonuks . Publisher: Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press. Publication Date: 2001</ref> The ''[[Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum]]'' by [[Adam of Bremen]] written at the end of the 11th century claims that behind the island of Kuramaa there is an island called Aestland (Estonia), whose inhabitants do not believe in the Christian God. Instead, they worship dragons and [[Finnish paganism#Sacred animals|birds]] (dracones adorant cum volucribus) to whom people bought from slavers are sacrificed.<ref
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