Verse 28
28. Cut themselves… till the blood gushed out “The prophets of Baal took Elijah at his word. Like the dervishes, who eat glass, seize living snakes with their teeth, throw themselves prostrate for their mounted chief to ride over them like the Corybantian priests of Cybele like the fakirs of India they now, in their frenzied state, tossed to and fro the swords and lances which formed part of their fantastic worship, and gashed themselves and each other till they were smeared with blood, and mingled with their loud yells to the… divinity those ravings which formed the dark side of ancient prophecy.” Stanley.
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