Authorities stopped treating the case as a homicide when a coroner found
embalming fluid in the body, McCutcheon said. The time and cause of death

Investigators were consulting cult experts to determine what kinds of
groups may have performed such a ritual. "We're interested in knowing if
there was a ceremony down by the river,"


And I saw a little man, a barber, whitened with age, and he said to me, "What are you looking at?"

I answered that I wondered at the boiling water and the men who were burning but remained alive.

And he answered me saying, "The spectacle which you see is at once the entrance and the exit and the process."

I questioned him further, "What is the nature of the process?"

And he answered saying, "It is the place of the practice called the embalming. Men wishing to obtain virtue enter here and, fleeing the body, become spirits."

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