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  2. Blooding (hunting) - Wikipedia

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    Blooding is the practice of smearing an animal's blood on the face of the person who killed the animal while hunting.An article on blooding in the British royal family says "Spreading blood on a person’s face is an ancient ritual performed to celebrate a hunter’s first successful kill."

  3. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  4. List of Book of the Dead spells - Wikipedia

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    1. For the day of burial. Often accompanied with a lavish vignette showing a funerary procession. [1] A spell for going out into the day. [2] 1B. Recitation for the day of burial. [3] Spell for permitting the noble dead to descend to the Netherworld on the day of the interment. [4] 2. A spell for going out into the day and living after death ...

  5. Blood ritual - Wikipedia

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    Blood rituals are practiced by various groups of people, including those with religious or political affiliations. Some of the rituals involving blood have been practiced for many centuries, and are still being practiced in the 21st century. [1] Blood rituals often involve a symbolic death and rebirth, as literal bodily birth involves bleeding.

  6. Runic magic - Wikipedia

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    There is some evidence [citation needed] that, in addition to being a writing system, runes historically served purposes of magic.This is the case from the earliest epigraphic evidence of the Roman to the Germanic Iron Age, with non-linguistic inscriptions and the alu word.

  7. Blood eagle - Wikipedia

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    The blood-eagle ritual-killing rite appears in just two instances in Norse literature, plus oblique references some have interpreted as referring to the same practice. The primary versions share certain commonalities: the victims are both noblemen (Halfdan Haaleg or "Long-leg" was a prince; Ælla of Northumbria a king), and both of the ...

  8. Choronzon - Wikipedia

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    Choronzon / ˌ k oʊ ˌ r oʊ n ˈ z oʊ n / is a demon that originated in writing with the 16th-century occultists Edward Kelley and John Dee within the latter's occult system of Enochian magic.

  9. Ritual of oak and mistletoe - Wikipedia

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    The ritual of oak and mistletoe is a Celtic religious ceremony, in which white-clad druids climbed a sacred oak, cut down the mistletoe growing on it, sacrificed two white bulls and used the mistletoe to make an elixir to cure infertility and the effects of poison. [1] The ritual, known from a single passage in Pliny's Natural History, has ...