Then, still upright, his stomach was slit open so that he could be ritually disemboweled.
Women, who were ritually impure through birth or menstruation, were not allowed access to game.
Which was fortunate because that was when they got picked on to be ritually humiliated by joining the belly dancer on stage!
A Russian Orthodox believer takes a ritually purifying bath in the icy Moskva river during the Epiphany holiday.
The most significant difference between a village and a hamlet is that the latter is ritually entirely subordinated to the village.