The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.
1Or marks of some kind of murder method consistent with a ritual killing.
3And last April, two men suspected of sodomizing a 3-year-old boy and draining his blood in a ritual killing were lynched.
4A paper's reporter mentioned the death of Charles Walton, and added that it was "believed to have been a ritual killing".
5There have been concerns over the high number of ritual killings in the province for years, particularly of women.
6"For a ritual killing it would be a lot more intimate."
Translations for ritual killing