Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Arcane Rituals and Festal Omens
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Horn of plenty mythically linked to good fortune in harvest rites
- 2. Ghostly vision often interpreted as an omen during solstice festivities
- 3. Voluntary restraint practiced to purify before certain ancient feast days
- 4. Symmetry in words, sometimes used for protective spells during year-end rituals
- 5. Belief system involving symbolic animals invoked during ceremonial rites
- 6. Practice of foretelling through ritual signs at ancient harvest festivals
- 9. Obscure folk charm name used to ensure a bountiful harvest festival
- 12. Blasphemous act feared to bring curses during sacred seasonal rites
- 13. Six-pointed star symbol used in folk rituals to ward off malefic influences
- 18. Light bearers said to guide lost souls during nocturnal festivities
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- 7. Rare term for a protective charm worn during autumn equinox ceremonies
- 8. Ritual dance thought to repel evil at May Day celebrations
- 10. Ancient Greek festival superstition tied to a lion’s legendary invulnerability
- 11. Agricultural pause symbolizing renewal, enmeshed in planting festival lore
- 14. Gathering where obscure superstitions often define customs and taboos
- 15. Hypothetical spirit said to visit households on the Eve of the Dead
- 16. Trinket with believed apotropaic properties during festive ornamentation
- 17. Nocturnal song tradition believed to summon protective winter spirits
- 19. Keepsake believed to trap misfortune away from celebrants
- 20. Strange or eerie atmosphere often linked to supernatural festival portents
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