1. The goat was ritually slaughtered.

2. The statue was ritually bathed and purified.

3. Animals are brought in and ritually slaughtered.

4. The dead have ritually been interred in pyramids, cremated on burning pyres, and sunk beneath the oceans' waves.

5. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality.

6. He ritually destroyed his early paintings - a cremation at a mortuary, no less - in 1966.

7. She was to be ritually speared for having broken a taboo.

8. Sometimes the six ritually beheaded the virgin.

9. The killings are brutal, with victims ritually tortured.

10. Rooney duly came on to be ritually abused by a suddenly vocal Anfield crowd – "Who's the scouser in the wig?

11. He took ritually clean beastsand birds of every kind , and offered whole - offerings on the altar.

12. A week later, the baby will be ritually bathed in a cedar tub by a courtier while auspicious texts, written in classic Chinese literary style and wishing it good health and fortune, are read aloud.

13. Evidence indicates that all the victims were ritually killed to consecrate successive stages of the pyramid's construction (illustration below).

14. Burying the dead makes one ritually impure, but God commands proper care of the dead.

15. During the endowment, the person is ritually washed, anointed with oil, and dressed in temple garments.

16. He ritually clean beasts and birds of every kind , and offered whole - offerings on the altar.

17. Sexual contact makes one ritually impure, and yet God commands humans to be fruitful and multiply.

18. Although Beijing ritually protests US weapons sales to the island, it has not previously targeted the companies involved in the trade.

19. The next chapter is concerned with further provisions for the cleansing and restoration of those who find themselves ritually unclean.

20. But churches had been burnt, priests killed, and proud Saxons had ritually washed off their enforced baptism.

21. The reference is to the practice of animal sacrifice in the Jewish Temple, where thousands of animals were ritually slaughtered every year as offerings to God, the meat being shared with the Priests.

22. Llullaillaco is also a well-known archaeological site; the mummified remains of three Inca children, ritually sacrificed 500 years ago, were discovered on the summit in 1999.

23. Mungo man - In 1974, scientists discovered the Mungo man - a primate who was ritually buried 40-60, 000 years ago with his hands covering his penis.

24. I'm not certain whether this can be defined as creepy or just inappropriate: a young Greek bride ritually celebrates her nuptials by grabbing a young, pre-pubescent boy and forcing him onto her lap.

25. There are demands for prayer calls, no pork in kindergartens, nurses in veils, halal meals in prisons(http://), and Muslims in elderly homes demanding to be ritually washed five times a day.

26. However, it's important to note that these passages say nothing about masturbation being sinful – simply that you must ritually cleanse yourself after ejaculating.

27. You can't even offer a sacrifice unless you're already ritually pure, because you couldn't get into the sanctuary to offer your sacrifice if you weren't ritually pure.

28. In Ancient Egypt the names of enemy kings would be inscribed on pottery bowls and ritually smashed with the aim of bringing about the death of these rulers.

29. Butcapitalism is incapable of inventinga future which does not ritually reproduce its present. With, needless to say, more options .. .