The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Five: Devil's Deception in Matters of Creed (al- 'aqa'id) and Religion
with her. When she becomes pregnant they left her to deliver the
baby boy. When the baby reached eight days old they brought him
and his mother and they pocked him with needles. The baby cried
while he was in his mother's arms and they said: "O Lord who does
not know evil, we have sacrificed to you someone who knew no evil,
so accept our sacrifice and grant us from your goodness and the
goodness of your good spirits."
For Mars they sacrificed a blond man with freckles. His hair was
so blond that it seemed white. They chained him to a pool filled
with oil up to his throat and added to the pool chemicals that strengthened
nerves but decomposed flesh. One year later, they grabbed his
head and pulled it, and with it came out all the nerves. They wrap
the nerves under his head and brought it to their idol while saying:
"O evil god with calamities and drought! We have sacrificed to you
that which resembles you. Accept our sacrifice and prevent us your
evil and the evil of your evil spirits." They claimed that the head
lived on for seven days and told them what good and evil they would
face that year.
Then they sacrificed to the sun the mother of the child who they
had sacrificed to Jupiter while circumventing the sun's image and
saying: "Glorified 0 goddess of light. We have sacrificed to you
that which resembles you. So accept our sacrifice and grant us from
your goodness and refuge from your evil."
And they sacrificed for Venice an old lewd woman. They sacrificed
her and called to Venice: "O lewd goddess, we have sacrificed
to you something that is as white as you, as lewd as you, and beautiful
as you. So accept her." Then they put firewood around the old
woman and torch it until she burnt to aches. Then, they took the
aches and threw them in the idol's face.
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