Bloodletting (disambiguation)

Bloodletting is a formerly common medical procedure now generally abandoned.

Bloodletting may also refer to :

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

• Bloodletting (film), a 1997 American direct-to-video horror film
• "Bloodletting" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead

Literature

• Bloodletting Press, small publishing house focused on horror fiction
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, short story collection by Vincent Lam

Music

• Bloodletting (Concrete Blonde album), album by Concrete Blonde
• Bloodletting (Overkill album), album by Overkill
• Bloodletting (Boxer album), an album by the rock band Boxer in 1976
• Bloodlet, American metalcore band

Other uses

• Bloodletting in Mesoamerica, ritualized self-cutting or piercing of an individual's body that served a number of ideological and cultural functions within ancient Mesoamerican societies
• Bait and bleed, military strategy
• Dhabihah, method to slaughter animals according to Islamic law by bloodletting
• Exsanguination, blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death in either animals or humans
• Kashrut (kosher), method to slaughter animals according to Judaic law by bloodletting