He felt odd, as if involved in some magical rite.
Why, then, were they performing a sympathetic magical rite?
The ball game as cosmical and magical rite, as symbol of the flight to the stars?
It could be argued that this approach reduced the sacrament of baptism to nothing but a "magical" rite.
I took my time, the others staring at my every move as though I were performing some magical rite.
Such roles, far from being confined to magical rites and ceremonies, have their counterparts in everyday life.
The ceremony must not be confined to the formally magical rites.
In magical rites, iron, lead and tin icons are utilized.
It had been a strange experience and he had felt how different this magical rite seemed compared with the church services he remembered from home.
It's clear that the fairy way of giving blessings is through a magical rite of song and dance.