In this tradition his image is used in gambling charms and rituals believed to bring down curses on others.

As historian Owen Davies noted, " Most cunning-folk employed a multi-pronged approach to curing witchcraft, using a combination of written charms, magic rituals, prayers and herbal medicines, thereby appealing to the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of the sick.

However, perhaps " the most influential vehicle for the dissemination of high magic to a wider audience was, in fact, Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft ", a book first published in the early seventeenth century in which Scot condemned the cunning folk as liars and tricksters, but in which he had also provided a wide variety of talismans, charms and rituals as examples of what the cunning folk and ceremonial magicians performed.

They prescribe cures for many of the diseases that are common in Ukamba using herbs and roots, tand sometimes charms and rituals.

To this end, they will force a daemon into possessing a human body, and, using powerful psychic spells, rituals and charms, bind it to the Inquisitor's will.

The beliefs and rituals now referred to as " Ancient Egyptian religion " existed within every aspect of Egyptian culture.

A person who relinquishes control for a large percentage of his or her day-to-day life to a top, or who submits within a formal set of rules and rituals, is sometimes referred to as a slave.

Ceremonial magic, also referred to as high magic and as learned magic, is a broad term used in the context of Hermeticism or Western esotericism to encompass a wide variety of long, elaborate, and complex rituals of magic.

In the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man ( 1973 film ), a Scottish Policeman played by Edward Woodward searches for a missing child on the west Scottish island of Summerisle, which is populated by modern-day Pagans who engage in various Celtic rituals, one of which is the baking of barley bread into the figure of a man known as John Barleycorn, who is referred to by the baker as " The life of the fields ".

Applewhite organized seemingly arbitrary rituals that were intended to instill a sense of discipline in his followers ; he referred to these tasks as " games ".

Many non-human animal species have mate-selection rituals also referred to as " courtship ", anthropomorphically.

Sabina Magliocco, in her examination of the influences of the study of folklore on the development of Wicca, considers it possible that by the late 1930s some members of the Crotona Fellowship were performing Wicca-like rituals based on Co-Masonry, and that this was the group referred to by Gerald Gardner as the ' New Forest Coven '.

The music was composed by Sidney Sager who used the Ambrosian Singers to chant in accordance with the megalithic rituals referred to in the story.

:- A bit of tribal drumming, otherwise similar to other instrumentation ; Lyrics regarding Pagan birth / rebirth rituals ; sun is referred to as sun cross, or swastika.

It acts as a " beacon " for the Loa ( also spelled Lwa )-a type of spirit, sometimes referred to as " angel ", and will serve as a loa's representation during rituals.

As Prof. O ' Dell says, there were pieces for secular use such as a series of different penannular brooches ( some of them probably as unfinished half-ware ) and different chapes from sword scabbards, pieces which might have been used for religious ceremonies and rituals like the bowls, spoons, and " thimbles " and all of those joined with some pieces of unsure meanings like the heavy ring chains or collars which are referred to as " power symbols of Pictish chieftains " by some scholars.

Financial matters are referred to as Money Business, and the secret-sacred rituals distinct to each sex are referred to as Women's Business and Men's Business.

During the Silla period, Toham mountain was referred to as Dongak ( 東嶽 ) literally meaning " East Big Mountain " and considered a guardian mountain of the country, so that major rituals were held.

In the simplest form of the adherent's personal practices, direct ancestors ( sometimes referred to as Dis ) are often praised and honoured during the rituals of sumble and blot.

Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.

Their descendants are to satisfy their hunger and clothe them, through rituals done on earth.

* Many traditional beliefs in the Philippines still practised to an extent today are animist and spiritist in origin in that there are rituals aimed at pacifying malevolent spirits or are apotropaic in nature.

As a rule, there are two sorts of rituals ; blót and symbel.

They often have pharmacological effects and are used as medications, as recreational drugs, or in entheogenic rituals.

Crafts such as the making of equal-armed rowan crosses are common, and often part of rituals performed for the blessing and protection of the household and land.

In Confucianism, the acts of everyday life are considered rituals.

( Science and Health, page 35 ) There are no rituals in the Christian Science church, but at the communion service, held twice a year, those in attendance are invited to kneel for silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer.

for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.

In rituals there are different cakra-sādhanā in which adherents assemble and perform rites.

These forecourts are typically fronted by large stones and it is thought the area in front of the cairn was used for public rituals of some kind.

Clement criticizes Greek paganism in the Protrepticus on the basis that its deities are both false and poor moral examples, and he attacks the mystery religions for their obscurantism and trivial rituals.

Like other Wiccans, Dianics may form covens, attend festivals, celebrate the eight major Wiccan holidays, Samhain, Beltane, Imbolc ( or Imbolg ), Lammas, the solstices and equinoxes ( see Wheel of the Year ) and the Esbats, which are rituals usually held at the full moon or dark moon.

When asked why men are excluded from the goddess rituals, Budapest has stated in a 2007 interview:

Initiation rituals are typically given to students as they progress along these paths, and care is taken not to discuss specific rituals to those lacking the right empowerment.

The law generally holds that the funeral rituals are for the benefit of the survivors, rather than to express the personal whims and tastes of the deceased.

There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not realize they are folklore, such as riddles, children's rhymes and ghost stories, rumors ( including conspiracy theories ), gossip, ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life-cycle rituals.

While the monist forces have led to a fusion between some of the goddesses ( 108 names are common for many goddesses ), centrifugal forces have also resulted in new goddesses and rituals gaining ascendance among the laity in different parts of Hindu world.

Laypeople will likely have some simple magical rituals for everyday living, but in situations of particular importance, especially when health or major life events are concerned, a specialist magician will often be consulted.

Little is also known about specific solar rituals, although it is noteworthy that Kinich Ahau regularly occurs in the Dresden Codex, which is largely concerned with ritual matters.

Early jyotish is concerned with the preparation of a calendar to fix the date of sacrificial rituals.

Buddhism is concerned with the rituals and meditative practices that lead to enlightenment.

The texts are typically concerned with elaborate rituals and meditations.

Red Shi ' ism, which he sees as the pure form of the religion, which is concerned with social justice and salvation for the masses and is devoid of idolatrous rituals and established clergy.

During the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) of China, educated gentry were interested in antiquarian pursuits of art collecting while Neo-Confucian scholar-officials were concerned with archaeological pursuits in order to revive the use of ancient relics in state rituals.

Indeed there are some scholars who believe that in fact the two concerned have had their ring entering rituals mixed up.

While Shen's educated Confucian contemporaries were interested in obtaining ancient relics and antiques in order to revive their use in rituals, Shen was more concerned with how items from archeological finds were originally manufactured and what their functionality would have been, based on empirical evidence.

The Priestly work is concerned with priestly matters-ritual law, the origins of shrines and rituals, and genealogies-all expressed in a formal, repetitive style.

P is deeply concerned with " holiness ", meaning the ritual purity of the people and the land: Israel is to be " a priestly kingdom and a holy nation " ( Exodus 19: 6 ), and P's elaborate rules and rituals are aimed at creating and preserving holiness.

#* This grotto is concerned mainly with rituals and is the middle phase of initiation for a Daoist master.

Possession is as concerned with the present day as it is with the Victorian era, pointing out the differences between the two time periods satirizing such things as modern academia and mating rituals.

In the 1950s, Master Yin Shun observed that the Buddhist monks and nuns in Taiwan, just like those in his hometown, seemed to be only concerned about performing rituals, and not educating other monks, nuns or laypeople with the Buddha's philosophy.

The Leipzig Interim was designed to allow Lutherans to retain their core theological beliefs, specifically where the doctrine of justification by grace was concerned, while yielding in other, less important matters, such as church rituals.