Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:32:25 -0400 Reply-To: whimbrel@home.com Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Shireen Gonzaga Subject: Re: Disturbing Incident MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm speculating here, but what you saw could have been part of an animal sacrifical ritual in a religion called Santeria. This religion has raised a lot of issues regarding animal cruelty and religious freedom, not appropriate for discussion on a birding list. So I'll simply point you all to a few webpages, so those of you interested in learning more about Santeria can satisfy your curiosity. http://sparta.rice.edu/~maryc/Santeria.html http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/santeria.html http://www.animal-law.org/sacrifice/sacrfc.htm - shireen -------------------------------- Shireen Gonzaga Freelance Science Writer Baltimore, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================