The ghosts of murdered kings had several key components that made the facts they shared, not invalid, but definitely questionable. First, without any documentation on the body, how do they know it wasn't just someone who got dumped there for nefarious purposes? Second, the items next to the bodies or found in the bogs may not have been sacrifices to a god, they could have just fallen in. Third, why are they so sure that the items they found are religious, or for that matter, why do they think they know anything about a culture that was written by an outside perspective?
The idea of a king or queen giving his body to the land in order to seed the earth and make it fertile is poetic, but I don't really see a king or queen allowing that to happen to him or her.
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