The man who is slaughtered must be neither a priest nor a slave, but a warrior or a man of the third caste (Weber, _loc.cit_.

above).] [Footnote 43: _Le Mercier_, 1637, ap.

Parkman, _loc.

cit_.
p.80.The current notion that the American Indian burns his victims at the stake merely for pleasure is not incorrect.
He frequently did so, as he does so to-day, but in the seventeenth century this act often is part of a religious ceremony.

He probably would have burned his captive, anyway, but he gladly utilized his pleasure as a means of propitiating his gods.