Meanings of horrible rites in английском

Such horrible rites were preserved and enacted with religious exactitude in San Pasqual.

After these horrible rites were abolished by Josiah, the place became an utter abomination.

Master and man were presently lodged in a temple, and were witnesses of some horrible rites which they dared not interfere with.

The English Government has succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders, though the Thuggees still exist, and pursue the exercise of their horrible rites.

This punishment prevented her, in the unhallowed life which, for such as she, begins after ordinary decease, from practising the horrible rites of a vampire.