Under Islamic religious practices, Muslims cannot eat pork or animals that have not been ritually slaughtered.

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But the ancient Egyptians would also, it is said, ritually bury redheaded men alive.

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One story has it that Seong forced an ex-boyfriend to ritually burn gifts from former girlfriends.

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"Use of goat or sheep skins in dynastic burials was rare because these materials were regarded ritually impure, " it says.

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The question that's ritually asked about filmed plays is whether they've been sufficiently opened up into real films, but it's the wrong question here.

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The cutting marks on the skull are the final piece of evidence that at least one of the Slip Gill skeletons was almost certainly ritually killed.

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That is to say, why, in our drum-thumping, ritually trumpeting time, did so little fanfare precede the opening of a movie with so much to recommend it?

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Most Japanese will, on this day and for the only time during the year, ritually visit a local shrine and pray for health and happiness for family members.

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So it puts the audience in the position of a kind of big brother or a doctor, observing this man almost trying to purge himself by ritually going through the story of Macbeth.

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As a mark of pride, every Italian government ritually reminds its partners abroad that Italy was a founding signatory of the treaty that ushered in what became the European Community, and Rome its birthplace.

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