Sentences with 'ecstasy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ecstasy and other words derived from it.
• « It is questionable whether the ancient pipe had medicinal virtues, whether it could produce drunkenness or ecstasy, or whether it had a function in religious ceremonies. But other discoveries may change these interpretations: the remains of opium plantations and a number of small vessels intended to contain the drug. »
• « The infusion of potions with hallucinogenic effects is common as part of the ceremony, producing a state of ecstasy, in which Satan is believed to be present and participating, either in spirit or incarnated in the priest, as in the ever-present rooster and black cats, liturgical symbols as important as the legendary billy goat, omnipresent in every self-respecting Black Mass. »