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  • Old Maid is also known as a "scapegoat" card game, in which you try to not have a particular card in your hand.
  • Whether that's because communities needed a scapegoat or a video game did spark the violence, it's clear that violence within a video game initiated a desire to cause destruction.
  • No anger was felt; the zealous prior, the prophet and lawgiver of Florence, was made the popular scapegoat.
  • Three main forms of human sacrifice existed in this area: (I) the scapegoat; (2) the messenger; and (3) the expiation, but combinations were not infrequent.
  • The Iroquois sacrifice of the white dog bore in later times the character of a scapegoat festival; but it is doubtful how far this was an original feature.
 
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