Hinduism: The Sati (Virtuous è; faithful to death); a widows sacrifice; a symbol of her husbands total devouement; consists for the widow to climb on the butcher of the deceased and die brulee alive (Hinduism: Sati or suttee; funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husbands pyre or takes her own life in another fashion shortly after her husbands death) Engraving from ??Picturesque History of Religions??by Clavel 1844 Private collection