People Injured in Turkey, Through Performing Sacrifice, Seek Medical Help
I just came across a very interesting article in the Turkish Daily News of December 24, 2007.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=91947
It talks about how 1,800 people were injured in Turkey in trying to catch and sacrifice their animals. Some people suffered heart attacks. I haven’t heard of this happening in Morocco, but that’s not to say it doesn’t.
At the end of the article, it mentions that butchering is going on in sites made for it, as opposed to inside of the home. In Morocco, most people have one sheep in the house, and the butchering is done in a small confined area, with several experienced people leading and holding the animal. I have never seen a panicked animal. I think an animal might panic if it saw other animals being slaughtered, but that is forbidden by the religion. If they are all being slaughtered together, hearing each other and smelling blood, even if they cannot see each other, still I could see that would be a problem for the animals.
The article did not make clear to me where these injuries were happening–whether they were in people’s homes, or other locations. If there are big open spaces at the locations provided, that would make increase the chances of injury.
Madame Monet
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Here is the text of the article:
The Turkish Daily News
Self-Sacrifice: More than 1,800 Casualties at End of Feast
Monday, December 24, 2007
ISTANBUL – TDN with wire dispatches
The Feast of the Sacrifice ended yesterday with more than 1,800 people injured and three people died of heart failure while trying to butcher their animals, news agencies reported.
Many also had difficulties trying to catch the animals that fled for their lives. People injured themselves with knife wounds in the face, hands and feet, and received emergency treatment in numerous provinces throughout the country. A total of 200 people in Denizli were admitted to hospital on the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice, while 75 people in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa and 124 in the Black Sea provinces of Trabzon, Rize, Giresun and Bayburt received medical treatment, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Meanwhile one person in Istanbul and one in the southern province of Antalya and one in the southeastern province of Adıyaman died from heart failure while trying to slaughter their animals. Mustafa Yılmaz, 64, in Antalya’s Alanya district had a heart attack in front of his house. Meanwhile, 41-year-old Mustafa İzci died after collapsing in Adıyaman.
Many people slaughter their animals themselves in places specially designated by municipalities. A school garden in Trabzon was used for animal slaughter, and people butchered animals near the city dump in the Black Sea province of Giresun, the Doğan news agency reported.
Found at:
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=91947
Madame Monet
This reminds me a lot of when they are running the bulls in Pamplona!
It seems to me that all these festivals put people in a kind of hysteria and even trance which can lead to injuries and death…
Kevin is laughing, right now,because I asked him how to spell “hystery”, he understood “history” because “hystery” doesn’t exist in English, and then came out with this wonderful wordplay:
“Hystery: the overemotional study of past events!”