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Arcane Rites of Antiquity and Obscurity
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- 1. Smoke-based purification, an archaic ceremonial practice
- 2. Adjective for charms designed to ward off evil
- 4. Sacred rite believed to convey divine grace
- 5. Formal rites performed upon a person’s death
- 7. Ancient healing rite using sacred bandages
- 10. Elaborate platform for funeral ceremonies
- 15. Curved wand once used by Roman augurs to mark sky
- 16. Medieval hymn sung in the Mass for the dead
- 17. Pertaining to phantom or specter-like ritual apparitions
- 19. Sea creature symbolically used in forgotten fertility rites
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- 3. The composition or singing of ritual hymns
- 6. Fabled grimoire of forbidden necromantic rites
- 8. Incense burner swung in liturgical ritual
- 9. Given up in a ritual act to appease gods
- 11. Ritualistic curse typically meant to condemn enemies
- 12. Mythic airborne spirits invoked in ancient rites
- 13. Ceremonial removal or sacrifice, often symbolic
- 14. Hand-reading art once integral to divinatory ceremonies
- 18. An object kept to recall past ritual moments
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