Even though they're way in the back of your mind, the old rituals still exert a powerful pull.

Finally, there's the old ritual of teaching the audience how to clap.

Every year, they repeated the same old rituals, but that's what made a family, she thought.

And not everybody is eager to see the old rituals vanish.

He had forced himself to go through with the old rituals.

But others say the return to older rituals is actually an expression of economic dislocation.

Life at the temple began to return to normal, the old rituals closing like water over the heads of the dead.

"We need to find those who know the old rituals of the goddess."

The farmers of our mountains kept to their old rituals.

"A wedding is the oldest ritual known to man," he said.