By: Ardis E. Parshall - June 05, 2015
Just because. This one purports to illustrate “suttee worship” — the old Hindu practice of a woman committing suicide, usually by fire, on her husband’s funeral pyre. This image was used in the magazine to illustrate the barbarism of non-Christian religions, and is about as accurate as any of the dime novel illustrations purporting to show Mormon temple rites. Ironically, one of the popular a...
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