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{{quote|''To win at war, make crops grow more, to cure our kids when ill,
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* ''[[The Golden Voyage of Sinbad]]''. Savages try to sacrifice a woman to their centaur deity, but Sinbad saves her.
* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]''. The Greek city of Joppa tries to sacrifice Andromeda to the Kraken, but Perseus saves her.
* ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]''. A group of cultists tries to sacrifice [[
* ''[[Lair of the White Worm]]''. The villainess tries to sacrifice a woman to the title monster.
* Of course featured in Mel Gibson's ''[[Apocalypto]]''.
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* ''[[Devil's Prey|Devils Prey]]'' (2001)
* ''[[The Wicker Man]]'' (The original version); Sergeant Howie fears that this is what Summerisle has planned for the missing girl, Rowan Morrison, whose disappearance he is investigating. {{spoiler|In fact, he is the chosen sacrifice. His sole, pyrrhic victory is pointing out that next year, when the crops fail again, only the sacrifice of Lord Summerisle will be sufficient. It goes unspoken that that won't work either.}}
* Played for laughs in the Beatles' ''[[Help!]]!''. Spending the whole movie trying to kill Ringo, who has a sacrificial ring stuck on his finger, the cult leader muses to himself "Perhaps if we gave away free tickets to the youth organization annual sacrifice and dinner dance, all this could be avoided. It's a very real problem!" just before he turns a flame thrower on the band.
* In ''The Mask of [[Fu Manchu]]'', the Chinese villain is about to sacrifice a white woman to bring Genghis Khan back to life.
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' (1982): The villain's cult has a human sacrifice ritual that involves naked virgins jumping into the pit of a giant snake.
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** Her own dedication was set up as a feigned this -- a man wielded an axe as if to cut her head off, and was stopped.
* Shirley Jackson's "[[The Lottery]]"
* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|The Master Mind of Mars]]'', Dar Tarus, [[
* In [[Andre Norton]]'s ''The Time Traders'', the prehistoric tribe is set to cremate their chief [[Due to the Dead|with great honor]]. Too great: they intend to kill Ross Murdock on it as a sacrifice.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'', Pteppic is presented the case of a handmaiden who refused to be killed for the last king's funeral. When he asks if it was not voluntary, the priest agreed that yes, it was, and she didn't volunteer.
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** In the predecessor game ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'', sacrifices could enhance spells but had to be willing-- either well-treated animals or brainwashed or fanatical humans. Unwilling sacrifices generated enough magical resonance opposed to the spell to cancel out any benefits from the sacrifice, although that didn't stop many villains from doing it anyway.
* Likewise, ''[[Geist: The Sin Eaters]]'' allows a Sin-Eater to regain [[Mana|Plasm]] if they kill someone in a way resonant with their Threshold. A Torn (death by violence) might just beat someone to death, a Silent (death by deprivation) might strangle them, and a Prey (death by nature) might sic a mad dog on them. Doing so to gain Plasm usually dings their [[Karma Meter|Synergy]], though.
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' the [[Lizard Folk|Lizardmen]] are incredibly fond of blood sacrifice, and their god Sotek appeared after the death of thousands. They manage to be one of the nicer races all the same though, because they mostly sacrifice the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] Skaven and Dark Elves. And most of the humans they kill are ones who mistook themselves for Conquistadors.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''
** ''Worlds of Cthulhu'' magazine #3, adventure ''The Golden Scorpion''. The [[PC]] ''will'' be sacrificed by the Aztec descendants they encounter. The only question is, what will they decide to do afterward...
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