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Arcane Rituals and Esoteric Festival Lore
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Festive adornments woven from flora, symbolizing renewal
- 2. English folk dance with bells and sticks, symbolic warfare
- 3. Act of ritual contrition involving self-imposed hardship
- 4. Welsh carved lantern used in obscure harvest customs
- 6. South American fertility rites involving ecstatic dances
- 7. Mythic figure symbolizing repetitive toil in Greek festival allegories
- 9. Celebration timed to celestial cycles influencing folk rituals
- 10. Rite invoking a spectral queen with repeated summons
- 11. Medieval masked performance with secretive ceremonial meaning
- 12. Japanese scarecrow figure guarding rural fertility rites
- 14. Central festival pole crowned with ribbons in seasonal rites
Down
- 5. Traditional Scottish mask blending vegetal and human forms
- 8. Mexican festival devil figure embodying ancestral mischief
- 13. Bulgarian masked dancers warding off evil spirits
- 15. Latin American paper-mâché effigies burned in cleansing fires
- 16. Archetypal figure disrupting norms during carnival chaos
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