Rather than sacrificing virgins, they would whip the male victim in front of a sacred image of Artemis.

I asked him: "Do you actually sacrifice virgins?"

Lord Leighton looked as shocked as if he had just been accused of sacrificing virgins by the light of a full moon.

"Maybe they only sacrifice virgins."

"The neighbors probably think I'm sacrificing virgins over here."

If someone believed that their path to "heaven" was through sacrificing virgins, would you respect that belief, no matter how strongly they held it?

"Probably a coven sacrificing virgins on the altar."

A treasure hunter accidentally frees a monster, forcing local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

'Ah, but maybe the population declined because we stopped sacrificing virgins - of both sexes, of course,' said Koomi, hurriedly.

Tribes in many parts of India sometimes sacrifice virgins to the Goddess.