| These women would ritually marry men of a superior caste, have numerous lovers, and bear legitimate children. |
| Truth commissions ritually invert the position of the victim in the politics of pain by shifting the focus from terror to trauma. |
| After failing to launch a military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself. |
| In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali. |
| On the tenth day, they are ritually sent back into the spiritual world and the vases are emptied and inverted to signify the end of the festival. |
| I had seen her 'smudge' the house with sage smoke, which, done ritually, cleanses the atmosphere. |
