The Twitter Herodotus

4.61 They cook meat in cauldrons (theirs are like Lesbian cauldrons) or cook it in the animal's stomach over a fire made from its bones.

4.62 Every year they sacrifice 1% of their captured enemies to Ares. They burn them in a bonfire after first cutting off their right arms.

4.63 They don't sacrifice or even keep pigs.

4.64 The Scythians drink the blood of the 1st man they kill & make napkins or coats from enemy scalps. They make quiver covers out of hands.

4.65 They sometimes make drinking vessels out of enemy skulls, sawing off the part below the eyebrows & gilding the inside if they're rich.

4.66 The greatest disgrace among them is not to have killed an enemy.

4.67 Scythian soothsayers prophesy using willow rods. But the hermaphroditic diviners among them prophesy with the bark of a lime tree.

4.68 When the Scythian king becomes sick, prophets accuse some citizen of perjury, and either he is killed or, if he's acquitted, they are.

4.69 The prophets are burned alive in a wagon. When the king kills someone, that person's male relatives are also all killed.

4.70 When the Scythians swear to agreements, they mix wine w/the blood of the contracting parties, dip weapons into it, & drink the mixture.