Scrapbook with newspaper cuttings and photographs (Gaster Samaritan MS Add 15)

A black and white photograph shows a large crowd of people, primarily men in light-colored robes and turbans, gathered in a rocky, mountainous outdoor setting. In the center of the group, several individuals are kneeling or bent over on the ground, engaged in a ritual activity. The background features a steep, stony hillside with more observers. This is a documentary photograph of a religious ceremony, likely a sacrifice.

Catching the Blood in Basins

As the lambs lie quivering in their death throes, two or three of the surpliced young men catch the blood in basins and proceed around the camp, sprinkling the upper and side posts of the tent doors and the faces of the women and children with the blood.