Human bodies,
(wasn’t it bogs more than lakes?) for religious purposes, not just to hide the body, and swords.
CMC fnord!
Not the ancient Islanders who used to toss human sacrificial virgins into volcanoes?
ETA: They still do that, don’t they?
I heard the Ivert Fountain throws money at you.
I thought it was, “In Manezhnaya Square, fountain throw coins at you!” Or, if you have a less bourgeois outlook, then “in Manezhnaya Square, fountain redistribute money to you!”
You’re thinking of Soviet Rochester.
It’s not only bodies of water. People also leave money in religious structures. There is a pile of coins in the ruins of the oratory on Innisfallen Island in Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland. I’ve also seen coins on the floor of the Gallarus Oratory in Dingle, Co. Kerry.
No. You’re thinking of Trevi Fountain.
And criminal executions. The four main purposes of bog bodies were religious sacrifices, hiding the body, distribution of swords, execution of criminals, and victims of will of the wisp. Wait, I’ll come in again.
I hate to hijack this information-rich thread, but it occurs to me that we know about the bog-sacrifices because acidic bog water is preserving (essentially pickling), while if somebody was sacrificed to the Lake God they might just rot pretty fast.
Do we know that bogs were preferred, or just handy?
There is a fountain in the lobby of my building. I looked in it today. It contains 41 cents…
I’d say marshes that with time turned into bogs.