21.   He told his lawyer the spirits would kill anyone who drank the blood and then lied.

22.   A woman killed her husband, mutilated his body and drank his blood in the holy city of Qom in central Iran, newspapers reported Thursday.

23.   The pair claimed to be practising Satanists who frequented graveyards at night and drank human blood like vampires.

24.   The woman then mashed his heart in an steel pot and drank the blood, according to newspapers citing transcripts prepared by a court in the holy city.

25.   Xiong had wanted to sacrifice a live chicken in the courtroom and drink its blood to prove his truthfulness in denying that he had sexually abused his daughters.

26.   Police quoted the suspect as saying that he had killed the boy and drank his blood to cleanse himself of sin and attain salvation.

27.   The Aum Supreme Truth used sex in its religious training and made followers drink the blood of its leader, a Japanese government official told a Tokyo court Thursday.