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* HumanSacrifice: Tessie is ritually murdered by the rest of the town. Why? Because it's tradition.
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* HumanSacrifice: Tessie The titular lottery is ritually murdered by the rest done to choose a sacrifice to ensure a good harvest, though most of the town. Why? Because townsfolk continue to do it because it's tradition.tradition, without any indication they know what the tradition was originally for.
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** Mr. and Mrs. Delacroix, which means "of the cross" in French. There's also a family named Graves, whose patriarch helps run the Lottery.
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** Mr. and Mrs. Delacroix, which means "of the cross" in French.
** There's also a family named Graves, whose patriarch helps run the Lottery.
** There's also a family named Graves, whose patriarch helps run the Lottery.
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* RegularlyScheduledEvil: June 27th of every year.
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* RegularlyScheduledEvil: June 27th of every year.year is when the sacrificial Lottery takes place.
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* TVNeverLies:
** ''Many'' readers wrote to the author to express their disgust at the fact that this sort of thing was happening in the modern world. Yes, it's ''{{fiction}},'' in the strongest sense of the word.
*** Not that women being stoned to death for no good reason ''isn't'' something that happens in the modern world, of course. In some places, it's even the case that laws permitting such acts really are only kept around because of tradition.
** Jackson based the story on folklore she'd been reading concerning human sacrifice and the scapegoat in traditional cultures. There was an incident involving which of two brothers would be it -- that's where she came up with drawing lots. So it ''was'' real, just transplanted to modern America.
** She even received a letter from a woman who had relatives in a Holiness church called the Exalted Rollers, saying that a similar story was told in that faith, but more as a warning about atomic war as punishment for sin.
** ''Many'' readers wrote to the author to express their disgust at the fact that this sort of thing was happening in the modern world. Yes, it's ''{{fiction}},'' in the strongest sense of the word.
*** Not that women being stoned to death for no good reason ''isn't'' something that happens in the modern world, of course. In some places, it's even the case that laws permitting such acts really are only kept around because of tradition.
** Jackson based the story on folklore she'd been reading concerning human sacrifice and the scapegoat in traditional cultures. There was an incident involving which of two brothers would be it -- that's where she came up with drawing lots. So it ''was'' real, just transplanted to modern America.
** She even received a letter from a woman who had relatives in a Holiness church called the Exalted Rollers, saying that a similar story was told in that faith, but more as a warning about atomic war as punishment for sin.
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Probably best known today as [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia a staple of American junior high/middle school literature classes]], it has been adapted into many kinds of media, such as radio, one-act plays, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TV1R1kK9A short films]], a 1969 ballet, and a successful 1996 MadeForTVMovie. There have also been {{Shout Out}}s in other media, including in episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}''.
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Probably best known today as [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia [[MediaNotes/SchoolStudyMedia a staple of American junior high/middle school literature classes]], it has been adapted into many kinds of media, such as radio, one-act plays, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TV1R1kK9A short films]], a 1969 ballet, and a successful 1996 MadeForTVMovie. There have also been {{Shout Out}}s in other media, including in episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}''.
