In the central area, local descent groups are fully autonomous, though still linked by ritual.

Who could know how many beating hearts they wasted by incorrect ritual?

Here, all crimes worked by ritual and custom!

Man had learned the truth about procreation, no longer believing that women conceived by magic ritual and running water.

By accidental ritual, I became a member of a community of familiar strangers who arrived each day to work in silence.

His state of husbandship was not stressed, nor formalized by ritual, for he wasn't yet a father.

He went outside to the bench where now, by ritual, he read all of Alexa's messages.

Mikal raised his hand in the gesture that, by ritual, spared the Chamberlain's life.

The chiefs governed their feudal domains by force, ritual, and taboo.

They emphasize eating only meats slaughtered by special ritual.