It is also still known to be practiced as a ritual and in war in various Melanesian tribes.

The earliest known Wiccan version is found in a document dating from the late 1940s, Gereald Gardner's ritual notebook titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical ( fomerly in the collection of Ripley's International, Toronto ).

The only non-African language known to employ clicks as regular speech sounds is Damin, a ritual code used by speakers of Lardil in Australia.

E. Mary Holding, a Methodist missionary in Meru, Kenya, wrote in 1942 that the circumcision ritual was an entirely female affair, organized by women's councils known as kiama gia ntonye (" the council of entering ").

The work follows the structure of the Tur and the Shulchan Aruch ; rules dealing with vows, agriculture, and ritual purity, are discussed in a second work known as Aruch HaShulchan he ' Atid.

After Jersey became an island, there is evidence of settled communities in the Neolithic period, which is marked by the building of the ritual burial sites known as dolmens.

After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, women became virtually the only source of Jewish ritual and tradition in the Catholic world in a phenomenon known as crypto-Judaism.

West, " The Samoans were also known to engage in “ headhunting ,” a ritual of war in which a warrior took the head of his slain opponent to give to his leader, thus proving his bravery.

Three of the posts ( and possibly four ) were in an east-west alignment which may have had ritual significance ; no parallels are known from Britain at the time but similar sites have been found in Scandinavia.

This ritual is known as pronking from the Afrikaans meaning to boast or show off.

A different type of salute with a rifle is a ritual firing performed during military funerals, known as a three-volley salute.

At the funeral, mourners traditionally rend an outer garment, a ritual known as keriah.

* Oldest known evidence of the inhalation of cannabis smoke, as indicated by charred cannabis seeds found in a ritual brazier at a burial site in present-day Romania.

The Hebron of the Bible was centered on what is now known as Tel Rumeida, while its ritual centre was located at Elonei Mamre.

Remains found at Mungo suggest one of the world's oldest known cremations, thus indicating early evidence for religious ritual among humans.

When a three year old Christian boy, Simonino, later known as Simon of Trent, disappeared in 1475 on the eve of Good Friday, the city's small Jewish community was accused of killing him and draining his blood for Jewish ritual purposes.

The Peabody Hotel is well known for the " Peabody Ducks " that live on the hotel rooftop, making the journey to the hotel lobby in a daily " March of Ducks " ritual.

Vulcans can perform mind melds with members of most other species, most notably Humans, with Jonathan Archer being the first known Human participant in such a ritual in 2154.

T ' Pol underwent the ritual, while Tuvok experienced a variation known as the tal ' oth.

Negative tendencies are not known as sins in Tenrikyo, but rather " dust ," as a metaphor, that can be swept away from the mind through hinokishin and ritual.

Later Roman followers of Cybele, were called Galli, who practiced ritual self-castration, known as sanguinaria.

They pulled Pentheus down and tore him from limb from limb ( as part of a ritual known as the sparagmos ).

Satanic ritual abuse ( SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organised abuse, sadistic ritual abuse and other variants ) was a moral panic that originated in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout the country and eventually to many parts of the world, before subsiding in the late 1990s.

In temples, honey is poured over the deities in a ritual called Madhu abhisheka.

Saichō had already had esoteric rites officially recognised by the court as an integral part of Tendai, and had already performed the abhisheka, or initiatory ritual, for the court by the time Kūkai returned to Japan.

This mandala, along with the Womb Realm, form the core of Japanese esoteric, or Shingon Buddhist, rituals, including the initiation or abhisheka ritual.

For example, as part of the ganachakra tsok ritual ( as well as Homa, abhisheka and sometimes drubchen ) some Tibetan Buddhists and Bönpos have been known to ingest small amounts of grain alcohol ( called amrit or amrita ) as an offering.

Also in Vedic Sanskrit, as nominalized neuter, it means " preparation, prepared place " and thus " ritual enclosure, place for a sacrifice ".

By 1200 BCE, the oral performance of these texts becomes standardized, and treatises on ritual recitation suggest splitting up the Sanskrit compounds into words, stems, and phonetic units, providing an impetus for morphology and phonetics.

Maithuna is a Sanskrit term used in Tantra most often translated as sexual union in a ritual context.

Soma ( Sanskrit स ो म sóma ), or Haoma ( Avestan ), from Proto-Indo-Iranian * sauma -, was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the subsequent Vedic and greater Persian cultures.

Pūjā or alternative transliteration Pooja, ( Devanagari: प ू ज ा) () ( Sanskrit: reverence, honour, adoration, or worship ) is a religious ritual performed by Hindus as an offering to various deities, distinguished persons, or special guests.

The word is derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word Rtu, a fixed or appointed time, especially the proper time for sacrifice ( yajna ) or ritual in Vedic Religion ; this in turn comes from the word Rta ( ऋत ), as used in Vedic Sanskrit literally means the " order or course of things ".

Aarti ( Hindi आरत ी), also spelled arathi, aarthi ( from the Sanskrit word " आर ा त ् र ि क " with the same meaning ) is a Hindu religious ritual of worship, a part of puja, in which light from wicks soaked in ghee ( purified butter ) or camphor is offered to one or more deities.

In Hinduism, yajna ( Sanskrit ; yagam ( Tamil ய ா கம ்) ; also Anglicized as Yajna, Yadna ) is a ritual of sacrifice ( also " worship, prayer, praise, offering and oblation, sacrifice " according to Monier-Williams ) derived from the practice in Vedic times.

Maithuna is a Sanskrit term used in Tantra most often translated as sexual union in a ritual context.

Newar dance consists of sacred masked dance, religious dance without the use of masks known as Dyah Pyakhan, dance performed as part of a ritual and meditation practice known as Chachaa Pyakhan () ( Charya Nritya in Sanskrit ) and folk dance.

Other scholars refer to affinities with medieval traditions of Nirguna Bhakti ( Sanskrit = " formless devotion "), with a similar emphasis on universalism, equality and direct experience, and criticism of blind allegiance to religious ritual and dogma.

Avadhuts are the voice of the avadhuti the channel that resolves the dichotomy of the ' left hand path ' ( Sanskrit: Vamamarga ; " Vamachara ") and ' right hand path ( Sanskrit: Dakshinamarga ) traditions and left and right channels ( otherwise known as the outer channels ) of the energetic body, though an Avadhut may or may not continue such dichotomous rites of the āstika or nāstika Darśana for they are free from sectarian ritual observance and affiliation.

The Shulba Sutras or Śulbasūtras ( Sanskrit: " string, cord, rope ") are sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction.

In iconography and ceremonial ritual tools, the elephant goad is often included in a hybridized tool, for example one that includes elements of Vajrakila, ' hooked knife ' or ' skin flail ' ( Tibetan: gri-gug, Sanskrit: kartika ), Vajra and Axe, as well as the goad functionality for example.

At present he is working with Ravi M. Gupta on a ‘ companion ’ to the Bhagavata Purana, and on a translation of a 16th century Sanskrit Vaisnava ritual texts in corroboration with Dr. Mans Broo ( Abo Akademie, Finland ).

A ( Sanskrit: ध ा रण ी; Sinhala: ධරණ ී; ; Japanese: 陀羅尼 darani ; gzungs ) is a type of ritual speech similar to a mantra.