Lord Avebury gives in _The Origin of Civilisation_ [213] an almost exact parallel to the Khond sacrifice in which the flesh of the victim actually was eaten.

This occurred among the Marimos, a tribe of South Africa much resembling the Bechuanas.

The ceremony was called 'the boiling of the corn.' A young man, stout but of small stature, was usually selected and secured by violence or by intoxicating him with _yaala_.

"They then lead him into the fields, and sacrifice him in the fields, according to their own expression, _for seed_.

His blood, after having been coagulated by the rays of the sun, is burned along with the frontal bone, the flesh attached to it and the brain.