A '''ritual''' is a set of actions, performed mainly for their [[symbol]]ic value, whic
...served for it; either in public, in private, or before specific people. A ritual may be restricted to a certain subset of the community, and may enable or u
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...' (生剥) is the name for demons characters that are played during a Japanese ritual of the same name.
...a peninsula (Akita Prefecture in northern Honshu) that has originated as a ritual for cleansing people's souls, and for blessing the new year.
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Myths : He ate Moses who did not observe the ritual of circumcision
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Ahlmakohth plays an important part in the ritual as an amulet-dispenser. His nasal mucus is valued as an amulet for invulner
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...to her in the form of a priest but the ritual was held after penances. The ritual was enabled with a letter of confession, which also released the confessing
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If a bear had to be killed, a sacred ritual of Peijainen was held, and the bear's spirit in the form of its skull remai
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...y-foot" creatures, standing in a circle and chanting, as if in a religious ritual. One of them was beating a hollow tree trunk, as a drum; on their faces wa
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The ritual is based on activating the human energy centers or chakras, which hold the
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To get rid of an ustrel a vampire hunter called vampirdzija must perform the ritual of the need fire. On a Saturday morning, all the fires in the community are
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...ckthorn stave and copper wire that has never carried electricity. During a ritual process, the copper wire is bound to the stave with red thread and the stav
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A text like the ''Arya Tara Kurukulla Kalpa'' contains many ritual practices of lower magic to accomplish specific goals, for example:
*the use of cowrie shells in divination and ritual,
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...resent society, a huge fine is imposed and in top of this a special lumbay ritual must given in honor of Mangindusa.
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*It may be possible that this goat figure, Leonard, is related to the ritual described in Leviticus 16:8 concerning Azazel, or to the alleged deity of t
*He is also mentioned in Eliphas Levi's (1810-1875) ''Ritual of Transcendental Magic'' (published 1896), Chapter XV, "The Sabbath of the
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...teen years and is used by Sodo to give himself effective immortality. This ritual is conducted by a chosen dread doppelgänger, and is referred to by the Par
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...though not all, Satanic circles (and not technically a Satanist) would be ritual magician [[Aleister Crowley]], who referred to himself as "The Great Beast
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Naked and pure, she personifies the fertility of marine species. Through her ritual dance she provides the chilote (resident of Chiloé) with an abundance or d
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...h a cable after being buried up to their waists in the ground as part of a ritual. Suradji was arrested on May 2, 1997, after bodies were discovered near his
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*It was a ritual object in sacred ceremonies such as the New Fire ceremony, represented in t
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...ates between the spiritual and the earthly worlds or planes. It is through ritual that the king could bring the center axis into existence in the temples and
...ary experience following an elaborate bloodletting ceremony. She holds the ritual paraphernalia in her arms while the vision serpent rises from a bowl of blo
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...laden with symbolism, usually appearing in scenes relating to war and the ritual drinking of a prisoner's blood. One theory suggests that the ulluchu, part
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