ABSTRACT
In the description of the atrocities that the Slavs committed, The Magdeburg Charter mentions a Slavic god called Pripegala without indication of his tribal affinity:
Their priests, moreover, whenever they giveth themselves to reveling (Deut. 21.20) on the appointed days, say: “Our Pripegala wants heads. It is fitting to make sacrifices of this sort.” Pripegala, as they say, is Priapus and shameless Beelphegar (Num. 25.3, 5). Then, when the Christians have been beheaded before the altars of their desecration, they hold basins full of human blood and say, yelling with horrible voices: “Let us keep the day of joy (Tob. 13.10). Christ is vanquished; our most victorious Pripegala has won.” 1
