In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

Ordination of a bishop, and thus continuation of apostolic succession, takes place through a ritual centred on the imposition of hands and prayer.

Upon return to the campus, the ritual of the " shakedown " takes place ( dismounting and then repeatedly jumping up and down ), a necessary procedure after a unicycle ride of nearly twenty miles.

At the practical level, magick most often takes several practices and forms of ritual, including banishing, invocation and evocation, eucharistic ritual, consecration and purification, astral travel, yoga, sex magic, and divination.

In a Tao religious aspect, to have a rooster fight another rooster, was the same in substance as a fire-renewal custom, where the rooster and the cockfight then takes its place as an indispensable spring ritual, and “ Taoism, which assessed it positively in this form, can be thought to have guaranteed its continued existence ”.

The ritual to become Noir takes place under Altena's manor, an underground temple in the style of ancient Greek ruins.

The three-legged alien takes the two boys and Willis to join a ritual called " growing together " with a group of its fellows.

While the bandaging no longer takes place, the ritual ablutions are still performed.

On the first day, a ritual called the Catching of Jumis takes place.

The profession of monastics is known as tonsure ( referring to the ritual cutting of the monastic's hair which takes place during the service ) and is considered to be a Sacred Mystery ( Sacrament ).

Her Greek tutor described the ritual: “ Hairdressing takes almost two hours, she said, and while my hair is busy, my mind stays idle.

Symbel consists of rounds of ritual drinking and toasting, and invariably takes place within an enclosed space of some kind.

Freud was particularly interested in Ethnological accounts of ' the " ceremonial " ( purely formal, ritual, or official ) coitus, which takes place ' in connection with ' the taboo of virginity '.

Within a relationship, ' the Compulsive libido type takes advantages of opportunities to use the specific sexual ritual that causes intense arousal, and in its stronger form, the Compulsive lover can only arouse using the sexual object or ritual.

It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening.

Wherever a ruler is anointed in this way, as in Great Britain and Tonga, this ritual takes on an overtly religious significance, following examples found in the Bible.

It usually takes place with one or more ritual that is specific to that organization.

A couple of weeks before the actual wedding, the ritual of Guo Da Li ( literally meaning " performing the rites ") takes place ( on an auspicious date ).

The ritual, called pangngae, takes place at the conclusion of the rice-harvesting season.

He takes her to a greenhouse of sorts, while everybody at the Lodge thinks the ritual worked.

After examinations, a similar ritual takes place as all underclassmen shake hands with the faculty before leaving for summer vacation.

The legend trip is a specific ritual, and as such takes place in ritual time and ritual space.

Orthodoxy considers apostolic succession to exist only within the Universal Church, and not through any authority held by individual bishops ; thus, if a bishop ordains someone to serve outside of the ( Orthodox ) Church, the ceremony is ineffectual, and no ordination has taken place regardless of the ritual used or the ordaining prelate's position within the Orthodox Churches.

While the first reference to " guising " in North America occurs in 1911, another reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.

Yahweh dwells with Israel in the holy of holies ; all the priestly ritual is focused on Yahweh and the construction and maintenance of a holy space ; but sin generates impurity, as do everyday events such as childbirth ; impurity pollutes the holy dwelling place ; failure to ritually purify the sacred space could result in God leaving, which would be disastrous.

A ritual must be put in place in order to successfully prepare a mojo by being filled and awakened to life.

Here the role and place of music needs to be interpreted through a broader framework in which tradition and ritual are understood as processes of identity and identification, as encoded and embodied forms of collective meaning and memory.

Each tournament began with a ritual which would decide how the tournament would take place.

There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

Ritual fights usually take place outside the temple proper and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

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

While the first reference to " guising " in North America occurs in 1911, another reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.

The ceremonial wedding of the Dauphin and Dauphine took place on 16 May 1770, in the Palace of Versailles, after which was the ritual bedding.

In this place, particularly in Santa Cruz Dolmen, the ritual burials of the surrounding regions ' chieftains were performed.

The ritual took place on the Prince's Stone ( Slovenian Knežji kamen, German Fürstenstein ), an ancient Roman column capital near Krnski grad ( now Karnburg ) and was performed in the Slovene language by a free peasant who, selected by his peers, in the name of the people of the land questioned the new Prince about his integrity and reminded him of his duties.

The coronation of Carinthian Dukes consisted of three parts: first, a ritual in the Slovene language was performed at the Prince's Stone ; then a mass was held at the cathedral of Maria Saal (); and subsequently, a ceremony took place at the Duke's Chair (, German: ), where the new Duke swore an oath in German and where he also received the homage of the estates.

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

According to Oppenheim, the corpus of cuneiform literature amounted to around 1, 500 texts at any one time or place, approximately half of which, at least from the first millennium, is extant in fragmentary form, and the most common genres included ( in order of predominance ) are omen texts, lexical lists, ritual incantations, cathartic and apotropaic conjurations, historical and mythological epics, fables and proverbs.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

In particular, they note that the glossing of the Italian version of the shahada into Arabic, does not correspond exactly with the standard ritual formula recited daily by every Muslim.

In Gardnerian Wicca, the Dryghten prayer is recited at the end of every ritual meeting contains the lines referring to the Horned God:

In every day terms, the imam for Sunni Muslims is the one who leads Islamic formal ( Fard ) prayers, even in locations besides the mosque, whenever prayers are done in a group of two or more with one person leading ( imam ) and the others follow by copying his ritual actions of worship.

Every aspect of life, every word, plant, animal and ritual was connected to the power and authority of the gods.

Shinto ritual pervades every aspect of sumo.

However, every seven years you do the ritual, the ceremony, the whole thing.

Even every new building and household is anointed, as well as some ritual instruments.

For him is repeated every ritual of the Hours cult of Osiris of the underworld, regeneration & re-birth, together with each of his ceremonies as a Mystery.

Livy even explains that he will record the archaic ritual of devotio at length because " the memory of every human and religious custom has withered from a preference for everything novel and foreign.

Every aspect of life, every word, plant, animal and ritual was connected to the power and authority of the gods.

'" There is, in fact, a ritual for this that is supposed to take place the day before Rosh Hashana ( because one does not do such chores on a holy day ), known as Hatarat Nedarim ( Cancelling of Vows ), wherein the individual presents himself before a tribunal of three and recites a Hebrew formula, very different from that of Kol Nidrei, asking for annulment of every vow or pledge or prohibition that he swore " while I was awake or dreaming ", " whether they were matters relating to money, or to the body, or to the soul ".... And the tribunal responds by reciting three times, " May everything be permitted you, may everything be forgiven you, may everything be allowed you.

And it stresses " the full equality and participation of men and women in every sphere of religious life ; an emphasis on ethical conduct above ritual observance ; an affirmation of each individual's freedom to act responsibly in accordance with the dictates of the informed religious conscience ; a pride in combining our Jewish heritage with full participation in the civic life of this country ; and an awareness of our duty not only to the Jewish people and to the State of Israel, but also to the entire human family, each one of whom is created in the Divine image ".

Despite many changes, this traditional ceremony was staged every year until 1666, when the abandonment was recorded by the ritual celebration of the people.

The most important one was the Panathenaia in honor of the goddess Athena, a ritual procession carried out once a year in May and once every four years in July, in which the town presented a new veil ( peplos ) to the old wooden statue of Athena Poliada.

The Junction Pool in Roscoe, where the Willowemoc flows into the Beaver Kill, is the center of an almost ritual pilgrimage every April 1, when the season begins.

He vomits in the huddle, which begins a ritual that he follows every game, reminiscent of Hall of Fame Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino.

He was a strong proponent of the Hungarian hasidic custom for married women to shave their head every month before immersion in the mikveh ( ritual bath ).

Aside from the blowing of the shofar, the other major ritual practice during Elul is to recite selichot ( special penitential prayers ) either every morning before sunrise during the week before the last Wednesday before Rosh Hashanah ( Ashkenazi tradition ) or every morning during the entire month of Elul ( Sephardi tradition ).

Broken, Ulic surrendered to the Republic, and led them to Yavin IV, where Exar Kun committed a ritual that sapped the life from every Massassi on the planet to separate his spirit from his body and bind it to his temple.

During the danyim, masqueraders perform dances every morning and evening for anytime up to six days depending on how that village performs this ritual.

Until the masqueraders have completed their dances and every ritual has been performed, it is said that any misfortune can be blamed on the remaining spirits of the dead ( Davis, 68 ).

The text describes in great detail the preparation of altars, ceremonial objects, ritual recitations, and the Soma libation, along with the symbolic attributes of every aspect of the rituals.