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
* Animal sacrifice
* Human sacrifice
* Hecatomb
* Holocaust (sacrifice)
Cremation
Sati is a Hindu funeral custom involving immolation.
Self-immolation is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest.
* Jauhar was the voluntary death (on a funeral pyre) of royal womenfolk of defeated Rajput castles to escape rape by their conquerors.

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.
Near the end of , Anakin Skywalker is burned alive after a duel with his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The track playing during this scene is called The Immolation Scene, to reflect the burning of Anakin's body after sacrificing all to become a Sith.

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