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July 22, 2008
Some Like It Hot, Some Like a Raging Inferno
in Productions
For an upcoming documentary exploring history's most notorious "death machines," the World of Wonder production staff built a 20-foot-tall Wicker Man reproduction – and promptly set it on fire. Sacrificial Wicker Man burning rituals date back to the ancient Celts and a description written by none other than Julius Caesar himself. If a real Wicker Man sacrifice was anything like this modern-day attempt, it would have been completely creepy and cruel. Caesar wrote that the ancient Celts strapped condemned criminals and farm animals inside as part of an elaborate fertility rite.
– Text and photo by Nick Perlmuter
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