Can someone give me some examples of rituals? thx?
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Chrismas-Christians celebrate the birth of christ, so its a annual ritual of theirs to celebrate the birth of christ.\n\nCan be used for all holidays \n\n\nYou can say its a family ritual of ours to go to my great grandmas grave and lay flowers every year on July 6th because thats the day she died, \n\nIts a ritual for me to brush my teeth in the shower every moring and floss on the wendsday
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Just another pagan tradition!
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Santeria is interesting stuff, i am not fluent in spanish, so i could only pick up a little at the local botanica.  But trance possession by the Orisha is some pretty intense stuff! It is NOT mumbojumbo... it is a real way to connect with the divinity and with the ancestors, once you are "ridden" you will understand what i am talking about....
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When dealing with spiritual, metaphysical matters is is best to work on a metaphorical, subconcious level.\n\nThere are numerous ways to go about this. Personally I would take two steps.\n\n1: Severing yourself from the "bad mojo".\nSome ways of doing this are: smudging and other ritual purifications, ritual burnings (if you can name the curse write it on paper and burn it, ect), and wardings -- hanging protective symbols, contstructing personal shields ect.\n\n2: Bring the opposite energy into your life. This is often done by connecting yourself with a symbol of what you want. Wearing an amulet or scent, buning a candle of appropriate color, placing a symbol of the positive in a prominate place in your home (for example a personal alter). It can also be accomplished by prayer or invocation (also known as positive thinking or affermations, though those terms sound much less magical)\n\nThe importaint part is to find symbols that connect strongly with your beliefs. The more personal and significant the connection the more powerful the result.
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"Spirits of the Fire,\nCome to us,\nWe will kindle the Fire.\nSpirits of the Fire,\nCome to us,\nWe will kindle the Fire.\nWe will kindle the Fire,\nan Dance the Magick Circle Round.\nWe will kindle the Fire,\nWe will kindle the Fire."\n\nThis is actually a Wiccan Fire Chant,\nand is not meant to be used without fulfilling the words.\nThus, please only use this if you intend to Cast a Magick or Ritual Circle or if you at least plan to Dance around the Fire a bit and give an offering to the invited Fire Spirits (nearly any food-stuffs set ablaze are \nconsidered appropriate).\nPlease use it reverently, or do not use it at all.\nMany Blessings,\n             Lady Ament
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Anything to do with witchcraft or devil worship (Ouija boards, tarot cards, upside down stars, etc)
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The answer would not be very useful if it was the sort that could be shared with the entire Internet.  The best way is to create your own ritual around the things that you already know and the things that you want to know.  Bring out what you know of the four quarters, for the colors of candles, the type of symbols, and the correspondence with various elemental forces.  I have put a good bit of that in some of my earlier comments, I think, in the context of the Tarot.  The four elements of earth, air, water and fire have a complex set of correspondences with color, symbols from various systems, and most specifically with all that the Tarot-preserved symbols have come to mean in our lives.  For example, the Pentacle, or Disc, or Coin, is the symbol for north, the earth, the color green.  More esoteric connections exist for Angel names, the Kabbalah, god and goddess names from various languages and cultures, and so on.  Learn what you can.\n\nRitual purification starts with physical purification.  So once your alter is physically complete, it must be completely clean.  On every level you know how to cleanse.  Then place the elements on your alter slowly, symmetrically, in the context of poetic and musical ritual.  Deciding on what scent of incense to use is one of those to do slowly and thoughtfully.  Spend some time examining your reference materials, and then spend some time in the store that supplies the best incense you can find.\n\nBlessed be.
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I found many sites that may help.  Here are a few.\nhttp://www.wiccanweb.ca/\nhttp://witches.meetup.com/1356/?gj=sj14\nhttp://paganwiccan.about.com/library/regional/blreg_man.htm\nhttp://www.aquarianonline.com/Spirit/WiccaTalk.html
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Here is a site about ritual questions:\nhttp://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002263.html
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Runes are more for you then they are that they be politically correct.  You could find numerious stones that you find in life that have their own characteristics and meaning to you alone.  If you want traditional however, I suggest going to B&N and buy a book on runes, they will either show you how to make them, (which I would recomend due to the fact that they would be more intune with you.)  Or I believe they do sell them.  As far as blessing, If they are stones found in nature they may already be blessed. If you wish to cleanse them set them in the sun, a bowl of salt water, or in the light of a full moon.  To bless them it's as simple as asking your higher power to bless them or can be a huge ritual.  Do what feels right and is comfortable to you! Good Luck! BB Sdw
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http://p068.ezboard.com/bthegoddesswithinapaganplaceforwowen  This is a forum site, which means if you have questions there will be people to help. If you scroll down a bit into the divination section there is a section on palmistry. You have to get an account on that site first to be able to access it. \n\nhttp://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/index.php/f-98.html This one looks really good, it has three lessons and assignments. It is forum style again. http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/palmistry.html This has an overview, but if you scroll down you can access the other pages on Palmistry.\nIf you need more, try typing into google (Or yahoo, I guess) Serious Pagan Palmistry. That will be your best bet for finding anything...
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This is a good "beginners" article on Kashrut (Kosher) practices:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher\n\nPeace.
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1. Presumably the words "What are the ..." are missing from your question. If you can't be bothered to ask a proper question, you can hardly expect to get a proper answer.\n\n2. I would suggest these as a start:\na) traditional/folk music\nb) traditional costume\nc) normally danced either in pairs or as a larger group\nd) likely to be practised:\n(i) in rural or small urban areas (not in cities)\n(ii) where culture is perceived to be under threat of suppression or extinction.\n\n3. You should find out what you can on the internet. Yahoo! Answers is not a great place to get answers to a question such as this. I recommend searching at www.dogpile.com
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To honor one's dead relatives in known to be the tradition of the Eastern world in many countries.\n\nBuddhism in its inner most essence, has no ground for such practices.\n\nAlso, in most Eastern traditions, people would ask certain special people to help with the ceremony or praying. In ancient China, it was the taoist, but then certain Buddhist monks began to do the same as well.\n\nSimilarly in Japan, there were people who specialized in such practices... and apparently the Buddhist monks in Japan learned to began to practice it as well.\n\nThings are bundled together... but monks engaging in such practice is not taught by the Buddha.
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Not exactly sure what you're looking for.  Cultural practices are a very wide field--you want marriage traditions, festivals, cultural and moral values, etc?  I'm sure lots of folks could tell you about all of these things.  I read a great book once called "Modern German Cultre", that's a good place to start.  Or Gordon Craig's, "The Germans".
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I once saw a one legged witch turn a storm.\n\nMy first ritual, we were all comfortable throughout the ritual, but the instant the ritual ended, we realized that the room was cold. The heat hadn't been on and the whole time and it was spring equinox.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could put healing energy into people and tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nI have this one singing bowl which plays differently, responding to the place where it's played, or what chakra it's played on. I use it to locate blockages for spiritual healing. I also used it to find the perfect place to set up my tent the first time I camped in Kansas. One night the wind ripped through the camp. By morning, just about every tent had blown over except mine.\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection through an object which was divided and each of us kept half, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."\n\nOne time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.\n\nOn another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost i
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I read voodoo books and been to afew of there ceremonies.  I honestly think alot of it is in there heads.  One friend of mine is into it but he said he never heard the spirits or anything that if good things happen then it is from them.