Here is Bessy, our goat of the year now for 2 years running. Contrary to popular rumour, we do not drink the blood of our goats. Or at least, not very often:

In fact, our sacrifice every full moon to DAVE is to appease him so that our goats won't die. Due to lengthy court trials, appeals and eventually whole sentences, Panto-Druid-Soc has been advised to steer somewhat away from human sacrifice. Also, the comunity at large has been known on occassion to frown on the sacrifice of virgins on the grounds that it's a waste. There just aren't that many around. Or not many around for long :P

Therefore, the society decided to start sacrificing old slappers instead. This also did not seem to go down too well, suprisingly. Apparently, some of them had friends in high places. We were suprised to hear that they had friends. But, again showing ourselves to be a society that can move with the times, we have abandoned all public human sacrifice (those we still perform are done in the Epi at 12.00 on a Tuesday when it is guarenteed that noone will be about).

Now, most of our sacrifice to DAVE consists of rodents. Mainly squirrels. It's suprising how much like a rat a squirrel looks without it's tail. And inside out. These monthly sacrifices are now more family events out on the downs and parents tend to bring the kids to watch. But not their daughters. Fair doos.