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ritual: see ceremony ceremony, expression of shared feelings and attitudes through more or less formally ordered actions of an essentially symbolic nature performed on appropriate occasions. ..... Click the link for more information. . ritual 1. the prescribed or established form of a religious or other ceremony 2. such prescribed forms in general or collectively 3. Psychol any repetitive behaviour, such as hand-washing, performed by a person with a compulsive personality disorder How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I swear at one point I saw them all wearing hooded capes around a backyard fire involved in a satanic ritual, sacrificing goats and virgins. Satanic Killings by journalist and musician Frank Moorhouse is the modern history of the killings committed by cult members of the black magic and Satanic ritual practices. Much of the early-'80s frenzy about child molesters and Satanic ritual abuse, for example, is traceable to Susan Brownmiller-style feminism, with its view of rape and incest as frequent or normative aspects of patriarchy. |
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