Some parents have found that rituals make preparing for a trip away from home easier.

"Given what we're working with, here, the whole ritual makes me uncomfortable," Mike admitted.

They'd want to cart me off somewhere, make a ritual of it.

The two families meet to perform rituals to make the engagement official.

In its own way, the ritual made sense, it had a structure, a beginning and end, rules to follow.

"And frankly, the rituals made a lot more sense back then than they do now. "

They come to mourn and to remember - an old ritual made new, creating in this time another timeless moment.

Many rituals make reference to myths and are sometimes based directly on them.

The ritual, however, made her and eleven other people somewhat immortal.

In our world defined by science and technology, why do irrational rituals make a strong come-back?