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To: combjelly who wrote (964930)	9/17/2016 4:54:45 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576418

CJ, your links prove nothing about scalping being done in Europe. Here the heads were cut off, scalps and all. As you now know, the word comes from the origin of a drinking 'Skaal' made from a captured enemy head. The closest your links picked up from Google support your incorrect claim is the following (my underlining): "Although American native peoples were all too often accused of being the sole practitioners of scalping, in reality they did nothing others had not done before. Herodotus found the practice among the Pontic Scythians, and, according to the Maccabees, the ancient Persians tore away the scalp of one of their prisoners. Orosius reports that Romans scalped during the battle on the Raudine plain. It is highly probable that Germanic tribes behaved similarly, for we know that they ascribed magical powers to a shock of human hair, regarding it as the symbol of the free man." Not Europe except for some 3rd hand allegations. Next...