Child Sacrifice

Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please, propitiate or force a god or supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result. As such, it is a form of human sacrifice.

Homicide
Murder

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

  • Assassination
  • Child murder
  • Consensual homicide
  • Contract killing
  • Felony murder rule
  • Honor killing
  • Human sacrifice (Child)
  • Lust murder
  • Lynching
  • Mass murder
  • Murder–suicide
  • Proxy murder
  • Pseudocommando
  • Lonely hearts killer
  • Serial killer
  • Spree killer
  • Torture murder
  • Feticide
  • Double murder
  • Misdemeanor murder
  • Crime of passion
  • Internet homicide
  • Depraved-heart murder
Manslaughter
  • in English law
  • Negligent homicide
  • Vehicular homicide
Non-criminal homicide

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

  • Justifiable homicide
  • Capital punishment
  • Human sacrifice
  • Feticide
  • Medicide
  • War
By victim or victims
  • Suicide
Family
  • Familicide
  • Avunculicide
  • Prolicide (Filicide, Infanticide, Neonaticide)
  • Fratricide
  • Sororicide
  • Mariticide
  • Uxoricide
  • Parricide (Matricide, Patricide)
Other
  • Friendly fire
  • Genocide
  • Democide
  • Gendercide
  • Omnicide
  • Regicide
  • Tyrannicide
  • Pseudocide
  • Deicide

Read more about Child Sacrifice:  Prehistoric Britain, Uganda, Controversy

Famous quotes containing the words child and/or sacrifice:

    Monday’s child is fair in face,
    Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
    Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
    Thursday’s child has far to go,
    Friday’s child is loving and giving,
    Saturday’s child works hard for its living;
    And a child that is born on a Christmas day,
    Is fair and wise, good and gay.
    Anonymous. Quoted in Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire, vol. 2, ed. Anna E.K.S. Bray (1838)

    When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being “better,” and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
    Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)