... of the less radical traditions across cultures, especially when compared to the tradition of drawing a sacrifice to be stoned in Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery." Jackson presents a small town that has a yearly lottery on June 27th, that determines which one of its inhabitants will be sacrificed. The head of each household is called up to draw a random slip ... to lesson her own chance of being chosen. Tess yells "there's Don and Evamake them take their chance" (Jackson 629). The notion of sacrificing someone else in her place highlights the fact that the ritual is not an act...

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