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Ōharae is another method performed as a cleansing ritual to cleanse a large group of people. This ritual is practiced mostly in June and December to purify the nation, as well as after a disaster occurs. The practice is also performed at the year-end festival and also before major national festivals. [9] Shubatsu (修祓), a cleansing ritual ...
Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness. Ritual purification may also apply to objects and places.
Purity (Arabic: طهارة, romanized: ṭahārah) [1] is an essential aspect of Islam.It is the opposite of najāsa, the state of being ritually impure.It is achieved by first removing physical impurities (for example, urine) from the body, and then removing ritual impurity through wudu (usually) or ghusl.
Punyaham (पुण्याहम्, Puṇyāham) or Punyaha (Puṇyāha) is a cleansing ritual observed by Hindus. [1] [2] Performed by Brahmins, [3] it is performed for the consecration of a house before its occupation by residents.
For example, 17th-century priest Étienne Guibourg is said to have performed a series of Black Mass rituals with alleged witch Catherine Monvoisin for Madame de Montespan. [ 2 ] [ failed verification ] During his period of scholarship, A. E. Waite provided a comprehensive account of black magic practices, rituals and traditions in The Book of ...
The sexual cleansing of widows is a tradition that requires widowed women to have sexual intercourse as a form of ritual purification. It is practiced in parts of Angola, Congo, Ivory Coast, Malawi (where it is known as kulowa kufa), [16] Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. It has been suggested that the practice might be based on the idea ...
The full moon is a powerful time to expel negativity and make way for the new. Here, witches and astrologers offer up 15 ways to make the most of its energy.
A magic circle is a circle of space marked out by practitioners of some branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form a sacred space, or will provide them a form of magical protection, or both. It may be marked physically, drawn in a material like salt, flour, or chalk, or merely visualised.