The meat will be given to the elderly and the disabled, according to Parliament press officer Shairbek Mamatoktorov. The evidence of the evil spirits included disagreements between the two parties that came to an actual brawl recently on the floor. Sounds familiar.
Scapegoating is a remarkably widespread practice that is found in the Old Testament. In Ancient Greece, it could be a person like a criminal or a beggar. Somehow goats or sheep became the common choice for this primitive tradition.
We have seen chickens continued to be killed as part of the Jewish Kapparot tradition.
What is astonishing is that some nations remain in the control of such superstitious throwbacks.
Source: Salon