Killing the Elderly

[Amer Sulejmanagic]

The practice of killing the elderly was still alive among the Serbs in 19. century, practice known as Lapot. Some Serbs lived among the Germans, they are known as Serbs of Luzica (Lausic or Lausitz); this could be a connection.


Regards,
Amer



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> From: Thomas Chelmowski <the_lothian at yahoo.com>
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>The author also talks about sacrificing the king if the people are  having a hard go of it.  
>Ermanaric, the Greuthingi Goth king killed himself (a self-sacrifice was suggested in one of the history texts I read) when he was losing to the Huns.  
>  If one is true, it makes me think that the other might also be true.
>Any suggestions or comments?
>Tom
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>On Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:39 AM, OSCAR HERRE <duke.co at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>I was curious about their daily habits ....worship, food and farming,.....shelter for themselves,etc.....
>feasts and drinking such as wine or whatever they did do relieve themselves......
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>From: marja erwin <marja-e at riseup.net>
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>On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 08:17 -0800, the_lothian at yahoo.com wrote:
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>> Hello All,
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>> I am reading "Barbarian Rites" by Hans-Peter Hasenfratz.  In his
>> chapter on Society and its Values he writes
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>> The practice of killing the elderly, which is attested among the
>> eastern and northern Germanic peoples, was probably connected to the
>> idea of sparing "useless mouths" from the fate of a straw death.
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>> The straw-death referring to dying in your bed. 
>> Can anyone help me confirm this before I put it into my novel?
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>> Thanks,
>> Tom
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>This is the firs I've heard of it. This would, if true, show up in
>funerary archaeology, so it should be testable.
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