Immolation
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Immolation (Latin immolare "to sacrifice", originally "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal" (mola salsa), English since the 16th c.) may refer to:
- Fire sacrifice
- Cremation
- Self-immolation is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest.
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In popular culture
- Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung ends with Brünnhilde's immolation.
- In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Montressor notes that Fortunato 'did not perceive that my smiles, now, were at the thought of his immolation.'
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