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1. Every nine years, there were sacrifices in Uppsala, to which everyone was expected to contribute. Christians could buy themselves off this duty. They report that horses, dogs and people were sacrificed, as many as 72 in one spot had been haphazardly hanged according to an eyewitness.

2. In 630 AD, the highest pagan priest of King Edwin of Northumbria, Coifi, destroyed the pagan altars. Or so the reports say.