Human sacrifices at black masses?

Of course. The stories of children who were baptized stolen by Satan to use in their masses were the order of the day. According to Cree, the Church was responsible for spreading such rumors.

Families concerned, were to baptize their children not to be carried and that the Church is providing a steady source of income, as the baptisms were paid.

The other terror that beset parents, was that the newborn was kidnapped by black magicians, to initiate the Poor and receive the "Baptism satanic."

Black Mass is the main conclusion?

Too many fantasies about this topic and, in fact, it could be argued that the concept is virtually an invention. At present, there is no black masses. Those who do seek to revive a tradition that does not really exist, so this is a ridiculous impostación. Maybe it was the Catholic Church which helped to spread this myth.

Of course, there are very specific and historical reasons to be found in the Middle Ages, during the process that initiated the Inquisition. To condemn the alleged blasphemous fire, there was no stronger indictment of the fact that they attribute to hold black masses, where they desecrated Christian celebrations and parodies.

Rites curious for the dead

In dismissing the dead, not all forms follow the pattern of grim funerals Christians from the Middle Ages, include candles, incense, psalms, masses and dark clothes.

Other signs of mourning in the world, ranging from dressing up shaving of white hair, or leave it grow.

In the eighteenth century jazz funerals in New Orleans, which have their roots in the funerals of communities of Benin and Nigeria, the procession began singing a slow song or a spiritual funereal black, and back of the cemetery banda music played a festive ragtime, with which attendees had just dancing in honor of the deceased.

Formerly even human sacrifices were made: when someone died, Sumerians, Greeks and Chinese people buried or burned alive. The Etruscan tomb itself used as dining in their funeral banquet.

In Madagascar, takes place every several years, "famadihana." This is a celebration in which exhumed the corpse of a family member, you change the canvas and was walking by the people explaining the latest news.

In the book "Dancing on the grave," talking about people who were hurt thigh with a knife as a sign of mourning, not shed one tear in the burials are either forbidden to mention disappeared. The newspaper remembrance of the dead remains with the festivities as "sraddha india," or the day of the Christian dead on November 2.