healing ritual

collocation in English

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healing
adjective
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/ˈhiː.lɪŋ/us
/ˈhiː.lɪŋ/
helping to make someone well again, especially after a cut or ...
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ritual
noun[C or U]
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/ˈrɪtʃ.u.əl/us
/ˈrɪtʃ.u.əl/
a way of doing something in which the same actions are done in the same way ...
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(Definition ofhealingandritualfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When all options seem to have been exhausted and the calf has reached a critical state, the shepherds enlist the help of a local musician to enact ahealingritual.
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This story has become a charter for thehealingritualperformed at this temple.
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If a sick person is found, ahealingritualmay be performed using tobacco and singing.
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When the bomoh conducted thehealingritualto bring the fisherman's soul back, the princess appeared and responded by calling on five of her sisters to her aid.
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Zr is a communityhealingritualof drumming and dancing whose tradition is carried on mainly by women (men have the secondary roles) and whose main participants are women.
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By his teens, he was assisting the village shaman in healing rituals.
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As a sacred plant, it is used in peace and healing rituals.
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It is a traditional drink used in spiritual and healing rituals.
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Some of these demonic figures are used in healing rituals and may be native to the island.
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The traditional priesthood also plays a role in the indigenous medical system, as they learn therapeutic knowledge and healing rituals.
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A widespread custom of these women was to yawn repeatedly during healing rituals.
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The morning glory was also utilized in healing rituals by the "ticitl".
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The shaman may be called on to engage in significant healing rituals.
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This led to a new level of standarisation of priests, initiations of new devotees, healing rituals, and temples.
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Music is also used in daily life for healing rituals, initiation rituals, traditional stories, group names, and for entertainment.
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Historically, the blind performed healing rituals for curing illness and exorcising spirits.
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The masks are used in healing rituals which invoke the spirit of an old hunch-backed man.
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Hallucinogens may have been used as part of healing rituals.
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First a long history of drama as a healing force with ancient roots in the healing rituals and dramas of various societies.
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Many of these patients underwent exorcistic healing rituals that, though largely regarded as positive experiences by the patients, had no effect on symptomology.
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