1.   He had seen the etchings of it one evening after performing a ritual of weed-pulling from the tombs behind the abandoned pagoda.

2.   It says he apparently performed some ritual and gave the girl a cake with her name on it.

3.   The ritual is performed in order to thank the Sun Goddess for the rice harvest.

4.   Traditional Africans perform rituals to detect a thief and recover the stolen property.

5.   Also, special prayer rooms have been set up so that the participants can adequately perform the rituals required during this holy month of Ramadan.

6.   At the Chua Vietnam Buddhist temple, monks and nuns in saffron and white light their incense sticks and perform their rituals oblivious to time and place.

7.   Before the sun rises over the East River each weekday morning, a peculiar ritual is performed in the heart of Queens.

8.   A cabalist, by properly performing ritual, could begin to heal not just the mundane universe but the spiritual one as well.

9.   A fire ritual is performed each day at the encampment as branches from gum trees are placed on smoking logs in a gesture of peace and healing.

10.   A voodoo priestess recently performed a ritual near the Mississippi River to help ward off a hurricane.