le, as anthropologist Turner states, "Ritual is a stereotyped sequence of activities involving gestures, words and object performed in a sequestered place and designed to influence preternatural entities or forces on behalf of the actors goals and interests." (p.36) This serves to say that people perform rituals in hope that some greater force will be pleased by the act of faith, an will in turn grant them health, prosperity, or anything else they choose to ask for. These activities are simply a visual demonstration for people to show their faith in that supernatural being that they believe can ma!
             nipulate their future. These ritual practices can be performed individually, o
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