Violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person

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A man on horseback enters a church to discover an orgiastic sabbath. Watercolour painting.

People in Nagasaki trampling on Christian cult images. Etching, ca. 1789.

Ceres punishes Erysichthon of Thessaly with perpetual hunger. Engraving by J. Matheus, 1619.

After we die : the life and times of the human cadaver / Norman L. Cantor.

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People in Nagasaki trampling on Christian cult images. Etching, ca. 1789.

Ceres punishes Erysichthon of Thessaly with perpetual hunger. Engraving by J. Matheus, 1619.

A man on horseback enters a church to discover an orgiastic sabbath. Watercolour painting.

After we die : the life and times of the human cadaver / Norman L. Cantor.