This, however has not prevented certain signatory countries from skirting the international law principle and repatriating or expelling "bona fide" refugees into the hands of potential persecutors.
It is also performed with the intention of the future disentanglement of the knots of life problems, fulfillment of wishes and expelling away evilness.
To the present day, expelling states continue to go to great lengths to exclude the deportations and their continuing effects from the reach of international law.
Some tribes practice ritual vomiting after its consumption, possibly to heighten its purgative and purifying powers, by expelling contamination from the body.