The Lottery
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"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual traditio
North Bennington, Vermont
Image of the 1969 draft lottery to choose conscripts for the Vietnam War.
Human sacrifice
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Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is typically intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capi
The Lottery
…Each of the five draws a slip, and Tessie gets the marked one. The townspeople, including Tessie's young son Davy, pick up the gathered stones and begin throwing them at her as Tessie screams about the unfairness of the lottery. The New Yorker received a "torrent of letters" inquiring about the story, "the most mail the…
The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia, a depiction of a sacrificial procession on a mosaic from Roman Spain
Human sacrifice in the kingdom of Dahomey
Hawaiian sacrifice, from Jacques Arago's account of Freycinet's travels around the world from 1817 to 1820
The mythological sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks at the end of the Trojan War