قربانی انسانی: افشای شگفت‌انگیز کشتارهای آیینی در سرتاسر جهان

Jimmy Lee Shreeve Takes Us On A Nightmare Journey, Following The Initial Investigations Of Scotland Yard Into The Murder Of A Five-year-old Boy Whose Torso Was Found Floating In The Thames In 2001, And Travelling To Africa To Unveil A Grim Trade Of Exporting Humans For Sacrifice. He Uncovers The Dark Side Of Voodoo And Muti Magic, Linked With A Score Of Sacrifices And Murders, And In Mexico, Finds A Devotee Of Palo Mayombe Responsible For Torturing His Victims And Boiling Them In A Cauldron. Along The Way, Shreeve Brings His Own Brand Of Offbeat Detective Skills To The Fore, Providing Startling Conclusions To Some Of The World's Most Horrific Murders. Brutal And Disturbing, Human Sacrifice Takes Us Into The Dark World Of Twenty-first-century Ritual Murder.--book Jacket. Introduction. First Rites -- 1. Death Dealers -- Dead Babies -- Hexing In High Places -- Driving The Tractor On The Death Farm -- Tantra: The Yoga Of Killing? -- Money For Nothing? -- Sacrifice: The Art Of Giving Something Up -- A Necromancer In The Family -- 2. A Voodoo Orgy Of Madness -- Torso In The Thames -- Hunting The Juju Killers -- New Scotland Yard -- Visions Of Doubt -- God Squad -- Fighting Victimization -- Last Rites -- Fear And Dread In Blighty -- 3. Hearts Of Darkness -- Blood On The Tracks In Eire -- Fake Sacrifice -- Mugged For Body Parts -- Land Of Magic And Sorcery -- Fidelity Charm -- Flying Wizards And Shape-shifters -- The Political Beast -- Money Magic In Theory And Practice -- Killer Children? -- Early Reports Of Ritual Killing -- Leopard Men -- Berserkers -- Cannibal Soldiers -- Heart Full Of Soul? -- Why Sacrifice? -- 4. Professional Human Sacrificers -- Mountain Slayer -- Killing By The Book -- Breaking The Rules -- Wizard Of The Four Winds -- Thought Power -- Is It Really Murder? -- Devil Doctor Of Lagos -- A Hard-on For Hell -- Was It Idi Amin? -- 5. Satan Loves You -- A Match Made In Hell -- Belief In The Unseen -- Dark Pact -- Dead Love -- Death At The Devil's Altar -- Slain But Not Forgotten -- Turned On By Rotting Flesh -- Rock & Roll Can Never Die -- Radio Satan -- His Satanic Majesty's Request -- Order Out Of Chaos -- 6. Tomb Raiders -- Boneyard Blues -- Commercial Magic -- Loose Talk -- Cops Turned Sorcerers' Apprentices -- Ain't Never Gonna Stop -- Death Of A Palo Priest -- Dem Bones, Dem Bones Gonna Walk Aroun -- Shake, Rattle & Roll -- Ancestor Power -- Gimmie Some Head -- 7. Last Rites: Split Brains And Sacrifice -- A Strange Experience At The Metropole -- Bicameral Man -- The Bicameral Mind And Ritual Slaying -- Autonomy -- Postscript: Final Notes From The Ritual Killing Ground -- About Voodoo Veves. Jimmy Lee Shreeve. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [307]-316) And Index. Around the world, humans are being trafficked, kidnapped, sold, and enslaved for the specific purpose of sacrifice. Mass-scale migration has seen these gruesome techniques exported from the land of the Aztecs and finding their way to the United States, Britain, and many other locations world-wide. Voodoo priests in London have been linked to ritual murders, and not long ago, a Palo Mayombe priestess's New York City apartment yielded its grisly secrets. One New Jersey investigator says that sacrificial rites are not only going on today, but can be traced back ninety years in that state alone Human sacrifice still goes on uncomfortably close to home-cases have been found in the U.S., Europe, and the United Kingdom. In other parts of the world, such as South America, ritual killing is almost commonplace. HUMAN SACRIFICE investigates the terrifying current spate of human sacrifices and ritual killings. Jimmy Lee Shreeve draws on police reports and interviews with the victims' families to paint a horrifying picture of ritual sacrifice at home and abroad.