purification rites
Ceremonial spiritual cleansing
Purification rites are ceremonial practices intended to cleanse a person, object, or place of spiritual contamination or impurity.
Found across religions and cultures, they may involve washing, fasting, sacrifice, or symbolic acts: The priest performed purification rites before entering the temple.
Such rituals often mark transitions—birth, death, illness, or contact with the sacred.
- ablutionRitualized washing of body
- lustrationCleansing rite or vetting
- mikvehJewish purification immersion pool
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- offeringsThings presented or given
sin offering · blood sacrifice · holy water · shamanism · incense · fire ceremony · exorcism · casting out demons · laying on of hands · smudging · sacred smoke · spiritual cleansing · chanting · purity · sweat lodge · prayer · scapegoat · cleansing
- folk customsfolk dances, folk customs, burial rite, folk costumes, folk traditions
- folk traditionsfolk songs, folk dance, folk dances, folk tunes, folklore
- ritualsritual, rite, ceremony, sacrament, blessing
- African traditionsinitiation ceremonies, naming ceremony, ancestral worship, rites of passage, tribal chiefs
- ancient ritesritual sacrifice, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, blood sacrifice, burnt offering
- folk medicinefolk medicine, herbalism, herbal remedies, folk healer, herbal medicine
purification ritessin
Violation of divine law
transgression · moral corruption · uncleanness · impurity · abomination