21. Given the corpulency of the statues it may be that the cult was tied to a fertility rite . 22. Some scholars speculate that the King s Ball has its roots in fertility rites that date from prehistory. 23. A toothless old woman named Fat'hiya charges a small fee to guide women through the fertility rite . 24. Some may have been used in fertility rites , and some in exorcism or other forms of primitive ritual. 25. Contemporary imitations of possible fertility rites are reported inscriptions in Latin and paintings made by treasure-hunters. 26. The midwife wears a strong of red peppers around her neck and performs fertility rites as the dinner progresses. 27. Some months after her initiation, Morgaine is given in a fertility rite to the future high king of Britain. 28. They were erected by the Taf?people, an indigenous culture of Tucum�n province, and were used in fertility rites . 29. The February Lupercalia, celebrated as late as the 5th century of the Christian era, included an archaic fertility rite . 30. Maeve asks Merry to perform a fertility rite that will permit her to have a child by her dying human husband.