Lancets — should be lances. This self-mutilation, common in Oriental frenzy, was possibly a portion, or a survival, of human sacrifice, in the notion that self-torture and shedding of human blood must win Divine favour — a delusion not confined to heathen religions, though excusable only in them.
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1 Kings 18:28
28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the bloode gushed out upon them.