6. The Aztecs would take prisoners, then fatten them up and later sacrifice them to their sun god by tearing out the heart. The corpse would be tumbled down the stairs of the pyramid on which the sacrifice took place.

The body would not go to waste. At least three of the limbs would go to the captor (whoever captured the prisoner on the battlefield), and would be served at a feast at their property in a stew. The head would be removed and put on display by the temple, and the torso would be given to the zoo and fed to carnivorous animals.

7. Before the introduction of Christianity, the people of Fiji would strangle the widows of recently deceased men.

It was believed that only married people could enter the afterlife, and that wives must accompany their husbands as proof of their marriage. Often, the women were ready and willing in this ritual, partially because they knew if they weren't, they would be ostracized from their community. They would often build their own tombs, more out of fear of the surviving community than necessarily love for their deceased husbands. If a wife died, however, the husband did not have to be killed – his beard being shaved off and placed under her armpit was apparently sufficient evidence of marriage in the afterlife.

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