The " abduction " may have served to ward off the evil eye, and the cutting of the wife's hair was perhaps part of a rite of passage that signalled her entrance into a new life.

For centuries Carthusian nuns retained this rite, administered by the diocesan bishop four years after the nun took her vows.

The Woman indulged in religion once a week at a church near by, and took Conradin with her, but to him the church service was an alien rite in the House of Rimmon.

To complicate matters further, when a new form of Cerean cult was officially imported from Magna Graecia, it was known as the ritus graecus ( Greek rite ) of Ceres, and was distinct from her older Roman rites.

So when Pelopia, who at the time stayed in Sicyon at the court of king Thesprotus, came to the bank of a river to wash her clothes that had been stained with blood during a sacrificial rite, Thyestes, covering his face, attacked and raped her.

Nancy becomes greedy for power and encourages the others to join her in a rite called " invoking the spirit ".

Although sati, or the practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband ’ s funeral pyre, was officially outlawed by India ’ s British rulers in 1829, the rite persists.

The rite of the bride's oiling the posts of the door of her new home with wolf fat at her arrival, though not mentioning Janus explicitly, is a rite of passage related to the ianua.

The service included the funeral rite of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officiated by Archbishop Yurij, Bishop of Toronto, and the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a eulogy from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, and Adrienne Clarkson, by that time the sitting governor general, paid tribute to one of her predecessors via video, as she and her husband were en route to spend Christmas with Canadian troops stationed in the Persian Gulf.

For his part the Duke of Kent, aged 50, already considering marriage and encouraged into this particular match with her sister-in-law by his now deceased niece Princess Charlotte, became engaged to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( 17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861 ) and the couple married on 29 May 1818 at Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg, ( Lutheran rite ) and again on 11 July 1818 at Kew Palace, Kew, Surrey.

Again and again in her works, alienated outsiders undertake a journey through which they realize their full potential ; this emphasis on the rite of passage continued her association in many readers ' minds with young adult fiction, although she became a best seller to adults.

He performs the magic rite that will prevent her resistance.

In the new rite, the emphasis lay on her role as protector of religion and the nunneries in the realm.

Despite the Catholic-Polish family name with which she is associated, her affiliation with the Polish Home Army, and her connection with the Catholic rite while living in Quebec, her father, a wealthy industrialist, is thought to have been killed in a concentration camp during the war.

At the age of 16, he met Irina Fernández, his future wife, at her quinceañera, a rite of passage on her 15th birthday.

A religious cockfight, spiritual cockfight or sacred cockfight, is cockfighting in religious or spiritual exercise, ritual, rite, ceremony or dedication which is considered sacred or worthy of spiritual respect or devotion ; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers in a given set of spiritual ideas.

Later, the so-called velatio virginum became part of the rite of the consecration of virgins, the liturgical rite in which the church sets aside the virgin as a sacred person who belongs only to Christ.

Mark Finnan in his book Oak Island Secrets noted that many Masonic markings were found on Oak Island and pointed out that the shaft or pit and its mysterious contents seemed to replicate aspects of a Masonic initiation rite involving a hidden vault containing a sacred treasure.

Paul the Deacon notes that the inauguration rite of a Lombard king consisted essentially of his grasping of a sacred / royal lance.

Paradoxically the liturgy is still defining " the flesh and blood of Jesus " as our most sacred rite, the communion.

A sacred king, according to the systematic interpretation of mythology developed by Frazer in The Golden Bough ( published 1890 ), was a king who represented a solar deity in a periodically re-enacted fertility rite.

Yet when Gurudevan performed the sacred rite it appeared so natural for him to pick up a small rock and install it.

* Jack Womack's Dryco quartet, Elvissey ( 1993 ) depicts a future world wracked by climate change, where Elvis Presley has become the central messianic figure in an alternative religion, and where Elvis impersonation has become a sacred rite of spiritual possession.

This small rite is surrounded by a large number of additional actions and is followed by the worship of the three ( or five ) sacred fires ( agny-upasthāna ).

The sacred Upnayanam ceremony ( Sanskrit: उपनयनम ्, upanayanam ) that invests the wearer with the sacred Yajñopavītam is often considered a socially and spiritually significant rite ( or samskara ).

The rite of laying a cornerstone is an important cultural component of eastern architecture and metaphorically in sacred architecture generally.

However, in the case of a ferendae sententiae interdict, one incurred only when imposed by a legitimate superior or declared as the sentence of an ecclesiastical court, those affected are not to be admitted to Holy Communion ( see canon 915 ), and if they violate the prohibition against taking a ministerial part in celebrating the Eucharist or some other ceremony of public worship, they are to be expelled or the sacred rite suspended, unless there is a grave reason to the contrary.

The rite of the sacred hoop and medicine wheel differed and differs amongst indigenous traditions, as it now does between non-indigenous peoples, and between traditional and modernist variations.

" Desy also outlines some of the substances and fetishes involved in the construction and opening of a sacred hoop as a personal rite of " sacred play ": " A personal medicine wheel can be made using fetishes such as crystals, arrowheads, seashells, feathers, animal fur / bones, and so on.

James George Frazer, in his seminal work The Golden Bough, argued that the tale of the priesthood of Nemi was an instance of a worldwide myth of a sacred king who must periodically die as part of a regular fertility rite.

As a consequence, the notion of a sacred king who must periodically be slain by his rival as part of a fertility rite is likely to be more familiar to contemporary readers than it was to the ancients.

Byzantine ( Greek: Βυζαντινή Μουσική ), traditional music is associated with the medieval sacred chant of Christian Churches following the Constantinopolitan rite.

They are reflected in the rite of the first furrow, the most important and ceremonially richest Dargi rite ; in the spring New Year holiday, with its personification of winter and summer and their dispute in dialogue ; in the rites for making and stopping rain, calling out the sun, completing the harvest, beginning springtime work in the vineyards, and pasturing cattle ; and in the holiday of flowers, the thanksgiving for plowing, the sacred trees and groves, and so on.

Upanayanam is the saṃskāra or the ceremonial rite in which the young Brahmin boy is invested with the sacred thread and initiated into the Gayatri-the Holiest of all mantras in the legacy of the Rishis.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

The chief Biblical text concerning the rite is: " Is any among you sick?

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

The rite of anointing is included in the Episcopal Church's " Ministration to the Sick "

The rite performed by them is thus seen as having the same by no means negligible value of any other form of prayer offered for the sick or dying.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

Baptism ( from the Greek noun Βάπτισμα baptisma ; itself derived from baptismos, washing ) is a Christian rite of admission ( or adoption ), almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition.

In some Christian groups, wine is part of the rite of communion.

Eucharist: the Greek noun εὐχαριστία ( eucharistia ), meaning " thanksgiving ", is not used in the New Testament as a name for the rite ; however, the related verb is found in New Testament texts concerning the Last Supper, including the earliest:

It is the term by which the rite is referred to by the Didache ( late 1st or early 2nd century ), Ignatius of Antioch ( who died between 98 and 117 ) and Justin Martyr ( writing between 147 and 167 ).

Most Christians, even those who deny that there is any real change in the elements used, recognize a special presence of Christ in this rite.

The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.

The Beneventan rite is more closely related to the liturgy of the Ambrosian rite than the Roman rite.

Beneventan chant is largely defined by its role in the liturgy of the Beneventan rite ; many Beneventan chants were assigned multiple roles when inserted into Gregorian chantbooks, appearing variously as antiphons, offertories, and communions, for example.

The rite is concluded by three prayers said by the priest, the last one being said " at the departure of the soul.

There is an alternative rite known as The Office at the Parting of the Soul from the Body When a Man has Suffered for a Long Time.