They wanted to perform a rite of spring.
Photos: Sheila Maepa, above left, and Mongane Wally Serote, both of Pretoria, South Africa, performed a rite on Friday during ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the African Burial Ground.
Parishioners near Broué, in northern France, dragged their priest out of bed and forced him to perform a rite of exorcism on the cloud.
The agents head to the cemetery, where Wharton is performing a voodoo rite over Bauvais' coffin.
We draw blood like we're performing an initiation rite, and then marvel quietly at our own wounds and the wounds of others.
Ten days earlier, Ms. Mack performed a similar rite on ABC's "20/20".
He then allegedly restrained him with the help of others, performed a religious rite, and "slit his throat with a sickle" before disposing of the body.
The narrator, less extreme — perhaps less courageous? or more courageous — stays put and reaches a gentle closure, courtesy of the twins, who perform a funeral rite on a telephone switch panel made obsolete by new technology, then depart cheerfully on "a tranquil November Sunday of rare clarity shining through each and every thing".
Two small, brutal studies, one in graphite on paper and the other in gouache and watercolor, depict an "Ancient Human Sacrifice" (all works, about 1932-34) in which figures with masked faces reminiscent of the cubist works of Picasso perform a violent rite upon a man who is stretched out in a position recalling a crucifixion.
In her new work the minifurniture again assumes a role, but this time it interacts in a noirish way with larger-scale cutout figures, as in "The Long House (Den)," in which a scantily dressed woman in the company of old wicker chairs seems to perform a mysterious rite in the shadows.
