Human sacrifice

Animal sacrifice

In Ancient Greece, a Hecatomb (Ancient Greek ἑκατόμβη / hekatómbê) was a sacrifice to the gods of 100 cattle (hecaton = one hundred). In the Iliad hecatombs are described formulaically. The following is one instance, from Samuel Butler's...

Holocaust (sacrifice)

Self-immolation is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest.

Sati is a Hindu funeral custom involving self-immolation.

Jauhar was the voluntary death (on a funeral pyre) of the non-fighters of defeated Rajput communities to avoid capture.

Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung ends with Brünnhilde's immolation.

Immolation (band) is a death metal band from Yonkers, 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 fact, immolation spells have been included in many paper and electronic fantasy games since the 1980's.)

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Montressor notes that Fortunato 'did not perceive that my smiles, now, were at the thought of his immolation.'

Self-immolation is a song by Fear Factory.

Immolation is the second song by Becoming the Archetype for their second album The Physics of Fire.

Dance Dance Immolation is the version of DDR presented by The Crucible at their annual Fire Arts Festival in Oakland, California.