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capacocha

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  • noun A child sacrificed in a religious ritual in some pre-Columbian cultures.

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Examples

  • She had never known them, never known this kind of capacocha.

    Juanita 2010

  • It was at such sites that the Incas sacrificed children - the ceremony of capacocha - at moments of potential instability.

    The Guardian World News Dalya Alberge 2010

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