31.   Carrying out an ancient pre-Easter ritual, worshippers flocked to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem for the lighting of the Holy Fire.

32.   Children scooted in and out of the group, laughing and playing, oblivious to the ancient ritual.

33.   Carnival is rooted in ancient pagan rituals that pre-date Christianity.

34.   Here was a worldly career woman, educated at Harvard and Oxford, bringing modern ways to a royal family steeped in ancient ritual.

35.   In her native Somalia, when she was just a child, her sex was stolen from her in an ancient African ritual.

36.   In what Jewish scholars say is the longest known shmira, the ancient ritual is entering its ninth week with no sign of ending anytime soon.

37.   Sumo has its roots in ancient religious ritual.

38.   This ancient ritual will assure a good year inside the mines, miners say.

39.   Arenfield believed he was doing a good deed in fulfilling an ancient Jewish ritual to show rejection of the Christian religion.