The ritual of kapparot is still practiced by Jews. A rooster is selected for the men and a hen for the women. The bird is taken in the right hand and circled three times over the heads of the participants while these verses are recited: “This is my substitute, this is my exchange. This is my atonement. This fowl will go to death, and I will enter upon a good and long life.”
And then chickens picked up by her feet and swung above somebody's head, and then her throat is slashed, but not all the way, so she can run in the dust and the blood is pouring, and pouring till she dies.