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Immolation
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Immolation (Latin immolare "to sacrifice", originally "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal", English since the 16th c.) may refer to:
- Fire sacrifice
- Cremation
- Sati is a Hindu funeral custom involving immolation.
- Self-immolation is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest.
In popular culture:
- Immolation (band) is a death metal band from New York.
- Immolation is a spell of a Night Elf hero, the Demon Hunter, in the Blizzard computer game Warcraft III, and that of the warlock class in World of Warcraft.
- In Edgar Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado, Montressor notes that he (Fortunato) 'did not perceive that my smiles, now, were at the thought of his immolation.'
- Self-immolation is a song by Fear Factory.
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