Purification by fire is all that's good enough for people like that.

And what was this ritual purification by fire that Chiun was to do?

Many Protestant houses were burned, invoking the traditional purification by fire of all heretics.

The community is going -- vicariously, but no less effectively -- through a "purification by fire."

The use of purification by fire is an important element of the shamanic tradition dating back as early as the 6th century.

Her fancy ran riot with bitter misunderstandings, purifications by fire, snow-white souls, and death in the cruel cold of a Christmas night.

Bharati retained the final confrontation with the Brahmins of Chidambaram and his ritual purification by fire.

He claims the burning roses symbolize "purification by fire", representing the United States--"beautiful, but thorny."

Chapter 108 CONKLIN GRUNTED, said, Purification by fire.

Though the Moloch sacrifices have traditionally been understood to mean burning children alive to the god Moloch, some have suggested a rite of purification by fire instead, though perhaps a dangerous one.

The literature of the American plains is largely a literature of suffering, madness, purification by fire and bones under the sun, failed and buried lives; Eiseley became its first spokesman in the academic world.

Basing his calculations principally on Daniel 8:14: "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed", Miller assumed that the cleansing of the sanctuary represented the Earth's purification by fire at Christ's Second Coming.

Mourning the loss of his friend and the deaths of many of the innocent denizens of Revelstone, Covenant is able to come to terms with his power-madness, through a process in which he mimics the Giantish caamora, a ritual of purification by fire.

It was a lengthy ritual that involved many purifications by fire and water and the repetition of innumerable spells summoning the spirits of earth, air, fire, and water to stand at the four corners where the candles burned and protect the one within the circle during the long, dangerous hours of the night.