"ritual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Alternatively, the scallop resembles the setting sun, which was the focus of the pre-Christian Celtic rituals of the area.
- Many local carnival customs are based on local pre-Christian rituals, for example the elaborate rites involving masked figures in the Swabian-Alemannic carnival.
- He notes that "Pilgrims to the sacred caves practise every form of African religion from pre-Christian Basotho ritual and medicine to independent Apostolic to established mission church Christianity."
- Adam of Bremen's description of the sacrifices and the cultic centre in Uppsala is the best known account of pre-Christian rituals in Sweden.
- Knowledge about pre-Christian rituals in Scandinavia is composed mainly from fragments and indirect knowledge.
- Several tales from the sagas contain remains of pre-Christian rituals.
- Throughout the novel, Mackay Brown contrasts the inevitable nature of Magnus's fate with the symbolic significance of pre-Christian ritual, including human sacrifice.
- On display in this unprepossessing museum's fourth floor, these intricately designed eggs (pysanky) are handmade folk art whose roots extend back to pre-Christian rituals originally associated with the onset of spring.
- The Slavic names may describe the appearance or character of the person, may constitute a wish or even stem from pre-Christian conjuring rituals and meant not to attract the evil spirits.
- There is certainly no evidence that it is a pre-Christian ritual, as is often claimed.
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