Greeks offered propitiatory libations to prevent the deceased from returning to the upper world to haunt those who had not given them a proper burial.
This was a manifold, therapeutic, magical, propitiatory, alchemic role which flouted the strict biblical and rabbinic prohibitions on the consumption of blood....
The festival is derived from medieval propitiatory rituals meant to appease the townspeople and create a joyous atmosphere to bring in the new year.
In more mythical stories, it was also said that the flies that brought pestilence died immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird.
They therefore served cassava (manioc) bread as well as beverages and tobacco to their zemis as propitiatory offerings.
The dance was propitiatory, never secular, and performed only by males.
But we who are living will bless thee, and will pray, and offer unto thee propitiatory prayers and sacrifices for their souls.
There were three articles at issue in the disputation (on the liturgical language, church authority over forms of worship, and scriptural warrant for propitiatory masses).
