How did ancient cultures use blood as fertilizer?

by Kingdom_Come_

I understand the ancient Hebrews would use the blood from their sacrifices as fertilizer. However, I'm unclear as to how that process worked.

Was the blood simply added to water and spread on the fields or did they have an ancient approach to creating blood meal fertilizer?

What I'm looking for are the nuts and bolts for a screenplay I'm writing.

jschooltiger

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