Note 1335 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS
Reading edition
J. Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh (Calcutta, 1880), p. 96. For other instances of priests or representatives of the deity drinking the warm blood of the victim, compare H. A. Oldfield, Sketches from Nipal (London, 1880), ii. 296 sq.; Asiatic Researches, iv. pp. 40, 41, 50, 52 (8vo ed.); Paul Soleillet, L’Afrique Occidentale (Paris, 1877), pp. 123 sq. To snuff up the savour of the sacrifice was similarly supposed to produce inspiration (Tertullian, Apologet. 23).