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Arcane Vestiges of Obsolete Rites
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Incantations or objects meant to avert evil or misfortune
  • 2. Manuscript rewritten but bearing traces of prior ritual inscriptions
  • 3. Pertaining to rites for the dead and their passage beyond
  • 4. Offering of valued entities to divine forces in obsolescent cults
  • 6. Repeating rite of rebirth rejecting prior baptismal sanctity
  • 8. Spiritual allegiance to ancestral emblematic creatures or objects
  • 10. Place where bones once rested, echoing forgotten funerary ceremonies
  • 14. Ceremonial expulsions of malign spirits from the corporeal
  • 15. Relating to bones, essential in ancient ancestor veneration
  • 16. Liquid offerings poured in veneration during forgotten ceremonies
  • 17. Ritual consumption of raw flesh, symbolizing primal communion
Down
  • 5. Divining secrets by peering into reflective surfaces
  • 7. Forbidden art of conjuring spirits from the realm of the dead
  • 9. The mythical practice of transforming into corpses, a cryptic necromantic act
  • 11. Art of discerning hidden futures through arcane signs or omens
  • 12. Sacred chamber for ritual garments worn during consecration
  • 13. Pertaining to bloodletting rites in archaic purification ceremonies
  • 18. Light infantry whose shield lent name to certain rapid rites
  • 19. Concealed meaning conveyed through ritualistic signs or tokens
  • 20. Curved staff symbolizing augury’s authority in Roman rituals

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