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Arcane Rituals and Festive Eccentricities
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Agrarian ritual involving separation; historically linked to harvest festivals
- 2. Germanic spelling hinting at elaborate rites involving masks and noise
- 3. Frenzied dance cure linked to venomous bite myths in Southern Italy
- 4. Cryptic term for ceremonial fool’s indulgence in harvest celebrations
- 6. Decorated dart used in Spanish bullfighting, symbolic in festival pageants
- 7. Tamil festival tradition involving ritualistic teasing and role reversal
- 9. Metaphorical hint to rotting fish toss in bizarre carnival tradition
- 11. Legendary serpent whose gaze petrifies — invoked in medieval festival lore
Down
- 5. Ceremonial pealing to dispel evil during obscure winter solstice rites
- 8. Masked performance art in ancient festivities, often silent or cryptic
- 10. Deliberate oddity displayed during ceremonial events to provoke awe
- 12. Dialectical term for Fool’s procession in Northern European carnivals
- 13. Slavic demonic figures danced with fiery masks to exorcise spirits
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