As soon as they have made this vow they enter the sea up to their breasts and are very soon seized and devoured… and since they [the sharks] are accustomed and thus encouraged constantly by tasting human flesh, they become so bloodthirsty that they rush up fiercely at a mere shadow. Yet at other times they are so satiated… that they reject the offerings made by those unhappy idolators. They then look upon this escape, which they should consider as so much happiness and good fortune, as an event full of ill luck, and hence leave the sea weeping and lamenting loudly, believing that owing to their sins they were not considered worthy to have their sacrifice accepted by their false and diabolical gods, and henceforth they look upon themselves as forever damned and doomed.
Sebastian Manrique in Lewis/Goddess
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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