I just looked up what might live in bogs, and it includes frogs, bog turtles, muskrats, smooth newts, moose, owls, hares, beavers and salamanders. None of which I particularly want touching me.
Also bog people, which are ancient cadavers which becomes naturally mummified in peat bogs, mostly dating from the Iron Age. Imagine taking a swim in a nasty bog and coming up against someone who is centuries old and looks like a piece of jerky.
I always wonder about that. To modern sensibilities ritual sacrifice doesn't immediately sound like a great way to go out, but you'd usually get a fancy outfit, some really good food, and probably some hallucinogens.
As an option that wasn't disease, starvation, or festering spear wounds it probably wasn't the worst that could happen.
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