Before
this was
done,
anybody
who wished
might cut
off a
piece of
flesh or a
lock of
hair from
the corpse
and carry
it to the
grave of
some
relation
whose body
was being
consumed
by a
ghoul.
Attracted
by the
fresh
corpse,
the ghoul
would
leave the
mouldering
old body
in peace.
These
sacrifices
have been
offered by
men now
living. In
Greece the
great
goddess
Artemis
herself
appears to
have been
annually
hanged in
effigy in
her sacred
grove of
