Victims were ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods or spirits.

People would be ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease a god or spirit.

Spirit children are being cared for, not ritually killed.

It's not the first time they've killed ritually to protect their interests.

In pre-Roman Sardinia, elderly people who were unable to support themselves were ritually killed.

Now hailed as a "pioneer of fieldwork" in Italian ethnology, he was ritually killed by natives in 1902.

It was ritually killed and drawn, then impaled on a spit over the fire, still with the stubble of its fleece attached.

In 1910 a pogrom of the Jewish quarter started after false rumours that the Jews had ritually killed a Muslim girl.

Street children are taught marketable skills and those born with deformities, who once were at risk of being ritually killed, are cared for.

It is probable that in very early times if his powers weakened a king would be ritually killed.