These wards failed, and a last-ditch ritual caused thorns to thrust through the skin of the blood elves.

A drought in Fujian caused many people to ask her to call for rain, which was a ritual that could not be performed while pregnant.

Applying thick wraps to both of his knees became a pre-game ritual, and by the end of his career, simply swinging a bat caused him to fall to one knee in pain.

The identical ritual is represented, Burkert informs us ( 1992: 57 ), on a krater found at Canicattini, wherein it is shown being employed to cure the daughters of Proetus from their madness, caused by some ritual transgression.

Allen's trademark satirising of religious ritual, especially Catholic, throughout each episode caused minor controversy, which coupled with sometimes comparatively frank material, earned the show a risqué reputation.

Prior to their breakup the couple caused a stir by announcing their intention to place their baby daughter in the care of a gorilla in a ritual Aspinall's older children had already taken part in.

During this time, in response to the accusations of Patricia Pulling ( among others ) who felt that the " occult " elements of Dungeons & Dragons were driving people to Satanism, murder and suicide, perhaps even as part of a vast Satanic ritual abuse conspiracy, Stackpole did a research study on all American legal cases where injury or death had been attributed to gaming.

For Brahmanas and twice-born men, " causing an injury to a priest, smelling wine or things that are not to be smelled, crookedness, and sexual union with a man are traditionally said to cause loss of caste " In the same chapter, the atonement for twice-born men is a ritual bath: " A twice-born man who has intercourse with a male, or with a female in a cart drawn by oxen, in water, or in the day-time, shall bathe, dressed in his clothes.

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 ''.

It was the final stage of the reformers ' work of removing all elements of sacrificial offering from the Latin Mass ; so that it should cease to be seen as a ritual at which the priest, on behalf of the faithful offered Christ's body and blood to God ; and might rather be seen as a ritual whereby Christ shared his body and blood, according to a different sacramental theology, with the faithful.

The ritual and religious treatment of meditation functions so that the individual learns to take the practice with seriousness ; learning to gradually control their degree of relaxation such that undesired and harmful schisms do not occur to the psyche.

In Hebrew, the word Shabbat () can also mean "( Talmudic ) week ", so that in ritual liturgy a phrase like " Yom Reviʻi bəShabbat " means " the fourth day in the week ".

Most scholars see chapters 1 – 16 ( the Priestly code ) and chapters 17 – 26 ( the Holiness code ) as the work of two related schools, but while the Holiness material employs the same technical terms as the Priestly code, it broadens their meaning from pure ritual to the theological and moral, turning the ritual of the Priestly code into a model for the relationship of Israel to God: as the tabernacle is made holy by the presence of the Lord and kept apart from uncleanliness, so He will dwell among Israel when Israel is purified ( made holy ) and separated from other peoples.

The suspicious death of King William II of England, was a ritual sacrificial killing of a sacred king carried out by Henry I, a man so pious he later founded one of the biggest Abbeys in England.

But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.

Pausanias records a grove of Cabeirian Demeter and the Maid, three miles outside the gates of Thebes, where a ritual was performed, so called on the grounds that Demeter gave it to the Cabeiri, who established it at Thebes.

HaShem is used by Orthodox Jews so as to avoid saying Adonai outside of a ritual context.

According to Roman mythology, when Romulus and Remus founded Rome, they did so on the Palatine Hill according to Etruscan ritual ; that is, they began with a pomerium or sacred ditch.

The so called hearth of the landlord marks the connection to Earth of the offerer, i. e. is the marker of the origin of everything in the ritual act.

Crawley notes that it was " very significant of the affectionate element in religion " to give so important a part to the kiss as part of its ritual.

Another version attributed to ' Urwa has only one round of fitna, which begins after Muhammad has converted the entire population of Mecca, so that the Muslims are too numerous to perform ritual prostration ( sūjud ) all together.

The burning of the badnjak is a ritual which is most certainly of pagan origin, and is considered a sacrifice to God so that the coming year may bring plenty of food, happiness, love, luck and riches.

However, Antigone went back after his body was uncovered and performed the ritual again, an act that seems to be completely unmotivated by anything other than a plot necessity so that she could be caught in the act of disobedience, leaving no doubt of her guilt.

Janet and Stewart Farrar in A Witches ' Bible suggest that the point of an athame be dulled so as to prevent un-intended physical harm during ritual use.

As a part of a ritual, certain people groups of Papua New Guinea cut their skin and insert clay or ash into the wounds so as to develop permanent bumps ( known as keloids or weals ).

In any relationship however, ' a sexual habit that becomes routine or stylised ... can lead to a sexual ritual ', so that ' if you don't have a way to talk to your partner about your sexual relationship, you may find yourself ... stuck in sexual rituals that could be limiting your sexual enjoyment ': as a wife might say, '" Same old technique, same old Lewis.

These include drums suspended in the ceiling so they don ’ t touch the ground until they are needed for ritual song and dance ; a fire starter traditionally consisting of a fire drill ( two sticks ) and more recently a lighter, matches or flint ; benches to sit around ; ceramic bowls for preparing and eating ritual meals or offerings ; a conch shell “ trumpet ” to announce the beginning of a ceremony for both villagers and the gods ; a large hollowed trough to make the alcohol Balché for ritual consumption ; and most importantly the God House contains rubber characters, incense nodules ( made of copal ), and ceramic God pots used to burn the offerings for the rituals.

The magic ritual to do so required a Christian heart.

However, if members of a particular Church are so few that no hierarchy of their own has been established, their spiritual care is entrusted to a bishop of another ritual Church.

The dance is but a disguised ritual for the expression of ungratified sexual desire.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

Proper ritual observance at any level of society was capable of generating power for use in the spirit world ; ;

but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.

She was punished by the goddess for not having performed a ritual dance.

" Rav also exercised a great influence for good upon the moral and religious conditions of his native land, not only indirectly through his disciples, but directly by reason of the strictness with which he repressed abuses in matters of marriage and divorce, and denounced ignorance and negligence in matters of ritual observance.

The defenders of hunting and ritual slaughter asserted that lawful violence is in fact non-violence ; according to them sacrificial killing is not killing, but is meant for the welfare of the whole world.

It does not make any exception for ritual sacrificers and professional warrior-hunters.

Removal of teeth, mainly incisors, is or was practiced by some cultures for ritual purposes ( for instance in the Iberomaurusian culture of Neolithic North Africa ).

Youths able to understand the significance of the Rite may go through the ritual speaking for themselves.

Interior of Bursa Grand Mosque | Ulu Cami, showing the fountain ( şadırvan ) for Wudu | ritual ablutions.

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

In fact, ritual cleanliness for priests prohibited even being in the same room as a human corpse ().

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

The Analects stress the importance of ritual, but also the importance of ' ren ', which loosely translates as ' human-heartedness, Confucianism, along with Legalism, is responsible for creating the world ’ s first meritocracy, which holds that one's status should be determined by education and character rather than ancestry, wealth, or friendship.

Temple worship was a ritual involving sacrifice, occasionally including the sacrifice of animals in atonement for sin, offered to the God of Israel.

The early history of the synagogue is obscure, but it seems to be an institution developed for public Jewish worship during the Babylonian captivity when the Jews ( and Jewish Proselytes ) did not have access to a Temple ( the First Temple having been destroyed c. 586 BC ) for ritual sacrifice.

It closed with a series of ritual acclamations honouring the reigning Pope, the Popes who had convoked the Council, the emperor and the kings who had supported it, the papal legates, the cardinals, the ambassadors present, and the bishops, followed by acclamations of acceptance of the faith of the Council and its decrees, and of anathema for all heretics.

Kaplan had been a leading figure at JTS for 54 years, and had pressed for liturgical reform and innovations in ritual practice from inside of the framework of Conservative Judaism.

Individual rabbis continue to be free to avail themselves of more traditionalist minority rulings, and some congregations, particularly in Canada, accordingly still retain a more limited ritual role for women.

In particular, the worshippers of Dionysus are ridiculed for their ritual use of children's toys.

* Deposition ( university ), a widespread initiation ritual for new students practiced from the Middle Ages until the 18th century