Sentence examples for ritual killing from inspiring English sources

And little distinguishes the remains of a ritual killing from those of a murder.

Blood sacrifice as found in the later higher cultures is a persistence of the ritual killing in a degenerated form.

In 1995, two mismatched detectives, played by two masters of the laconic, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, investigate a ritual killing in the Louisiana bayou.

Here, the causes of death are anything but natural – the novel opens with a young woman being appallingly mutilated in a ritual killing.

Reviewing the collection North (1975), the poet Ciaran Carson labelled him "the laureate of violence - a mythmaker, an anthropologist of ritual killing".

In another section of the book, he takes at face value a story about the ritual killing of hundreds of people for the funeral of President Houphouët-Boigny.

From around that time, it became less about wanting to eat them, but more an obsession with the idea that I simply had to carry out this "ritual" of killing a girl no matter what.

Reports indicated that many locals believed the girl's father, Budhram Tati (the original suspect in the case), was casting black magic spells against them, which could be counteracted by the potent ritual of killing a pre-pubescent girl and offering her organs to the Hindu goddess Durga.

When they find it, Fang reveals that it is key to the ritual in Luxerion as it has the power to draw in the souls of the dead, and that the ritual will kill Vanille.

There is no shortage of stories that mock righteousness and skewer ritual, that kill the father and masturbate with the sister's underwear.

As the two maids enact their ritual fantasy about killing Madame (Natalie Ballesteros), the volatile combination of envy, affection and loathing they feel toward her is disturbing to behold.