A strong note of human limits ran through the purification ceremony.

"I've never heard of a fire at any building where I had conducted a purification ceremony," he said.

The solo was essentially a purification ceremony, yet far from solemn in tone.

That could mean a mundane divorce as well as a purification ceremony.

If it was kept a purification ceremony took place on the fifth or seventh day after birth.

No one was allowed to leave or enter, and people underwent purification ceremonies during Kaul.

He said a man had fired a pistol at him during a purification ceremony.

The purification ceremony, in case of normal death is observed on the seventh day after death.

In the Murasing community, a purification ceremony is done seven days after a child's birth.

The purification ceremonies always were performed on the seventh day of the month, which was sacred to and associated with the god Apollo.