cleansing ritual
Sacred purification practice
A cleansing ritual is a ceremonial practice intended to purify a person, place, or object of negative energy, spiritual contamination, or sin.
These range from religious rites like baptism and ablution to folk practices like smudging with sage or sprinkling salt.
The term appears in both sincere spiritual contexts and secular ones where someone wants to symbolically mark a fresh start: After the breakup, she did a cleansing ritual on her apartment.
- purificationRemoval of contaminants
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- sacred spaceArea reserved for worship
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- washingCleaning with liquid
holy water · holy smoke · incense · smudging · sage · salt bath · absolution · ceremony · prayer · blessing · anoint · altar · white candle · candle · smoke · chanting · spiritual · renewal
- tribal healingmedicine man, medicine woman, traditional healers, healer, curandero
- tribal ritualssun dance, rain dance, vision quest, rites of passage, corroboree
- African ritualsnaming ceremony, puberty rites, libation, ancestral worship, masquerade
- Bantu spiritualityancestor spirits, ancestral spirits, ancestor veneration, spirit possession, spirit world
- hammamhammam, Turkish bath, steam room, hot room, warm room
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
cleansing ritualblack mass
Profane parody of communion
sin · profanation · transgression · impurity · taint
cleansing ritualdesecration
Violating something sacred
profanation · curse · hex · malediction · anathema
cleansing ritualdesecration
Violating something sacred
profanation · sacrilege · blasphemy · defilement · black mass
cleanse, clean, cleaner, cleanest, cleanly, cleanliness, cleaned, cleaning, cleanser