@fzer0 Actually there's a lot of that in Discworld, where a lot of the magic ritual is just for show.
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This also shows up in Lois McMaster Bujold's "World Of The Five Gods" stories, where the Death Magic spell usually has lots of fancy requirements that aren't needed.
You really only need a sincere willingness to die to get your justice and for the god to agree that the injustice you suffered is real and big enough to justify killing someone.