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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...prisoner and his baby. Sometimes in New Zealand, when a chieftain was killed during a war between two tribes, hostilities were broken off while the body of the leader was chopped up by his opponents, roasted and devoured. Among the southern Slavs a mother has been known to ay her infant son down in the cradle to sleep upon the bloodstained shirt of his murdered father. The child was raised to avenge; it became his vocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Temptations of Revenge | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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