The young Sally had dedicated herself to Monigan in a midnight ritual, with the help of Julian.
The rest of the book's favorite Savannah residents are played by actors, notably Irma P. Hall as the voodoo queen whose specialty is midnight rituals at the graveyard.
At the end of the street we passed the temple, where lights still burned as the priests prepared for the midnight rituals.
Tommy had assisted at a midnight ritual of some kind.
We made love silently, as if it were a midnight ritual; prolonging each moment until it was impossible to prolong it any more.
I boned up on Satanism, discussed its history and rationale with LaVey, and attended some midnight rituals in the famous Victorian manse once used as Church of Satan headquarters.
Once more there was silence, but the wind outside howled like a host of furies and somewhere in the monastery building bronze bells summoned monks to midnight ritual.
"I think we may have been first to do it," said Driesell, referring to the midnight ritual at the University of Maryland, the last place he coached.
The midnight rituals always ended at dawn with a meditation upon the final reunion of the Shekhinah with Ein Sof and, consequently, the end of the separation of humanity from the divine.
With hair like spun snow and eyes like the embers that glowed in the middle of the fire, the boy looked like something built by a mountain shaman for a midnight ritual.