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https://www.jstor.org/stable/180345, R. H. Bacon, Benin the City of Blood (London, I897), 17, [The assumption here again is that the festival meant a holocaust of human beings. The Oba was celebrating the
Ague festival, which was one of rededication. This did not involve human sacrifices.
See also W. N. M. Geary: Nigeria Under British Rule (London, 1927), II4. ]