Editing Human sacrifice (section)

====Baltic peoples====
{{Main|Baltic mythology}}
According to written sources from the 13th–14th centuries, the [[Lithuanians (tribe)|Lithuanians]] and [[Old Prussians|Prussians]] made sacrifices to their [[List of Lithuanian gods and mythological figures|pagan gods]] at their sacred places, [[Alka (Baltic religion)|alka hills]], battlefields and near natural objects ([[Baltic Sea|sea]], rivers, lakes, etc.).<ref name="Balsys">{{cite web |last1=Balsys |first1=Rimantas |title=Pagoniškieji lietuvių ir prūsų aukojimai |url=http://tautosmenta.lt/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Balsys_Rimantas/Balsys_GK_8_2015.pdf |website=Tautosmenta.lt |access-date=4 March 2023 |language=lt}}</ref> In 1389 following the military victories in the land of [[Varniai|Medininkai]] the [[Samogitians]] cast lots which indicated Marquard von Raschau, the commander of [[Klaipėda|Klaipėda (Memel)]], as a suitable victim for gods and burnt him on horseback in full armour.<ref name="ConversionOfLithuania">{{cite book|last1=Rowell|first1=Stephen Christopher|url=https://etalpykla.lituanistikadb.lt/fedora/objects/LT-LDB-0001:B.03~2015~1467038656538/datastreams/DS.001.1.01.BOOK/content|title=The conversion of Lithuania: from pagan barbarians to late medieval Christians|last2=Baronas|first2=Darius|date=2015|publisher=Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore|isbn=978-609-425-152-8|location=[[Vilnius]]|author-link1=Stephen Christopher Rowell|page=333|access-date=4 March 2023}}</ref> It possibly was the last human sacrifice in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] Europe.<ref name="ConversionOfLithuania"/>