And the practitioners of these strange rites often turn out to be ordinary folk.

He remembered visiting a Russian Orthodox church in the neighborhood, just to watch the strange rites.

What strange rites were they about to witness?

My great-gran said in the real old days the men used to come up for strange rites what no women ever saw.

They practice strange rites, some of which involve the eating of human flesh.

I gave up strange sexual rites around 1981,' he said.

They went into the mountains at night and practised strange rites.

For him, it was a strange rite.

Once this chamber had been a council room or meeting hall, or perhaps even a place of offerings and strange rites, Wil thought.