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Cryptic Taboos and Enigmatic Omens
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- 1. Founder of a faith whose cosmology underpins complex divine superstition
- 2. Substance inducing vomiting, ironically used in purifying rites
- 3. Ancient Egyptian amulet believed to protect from evil spirits
- 4. German 'night owl' word symbolizing ill-omen in folklore
- 6. Relating to owls, often harbingers in obscure folklore
- 7. The upper lip groove, once thought a conduit to mystical forces
- 13. Ancient desert people whose ruins inspired mystic portent tales
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- 5. Fear of the sea, linked to maritime superstitions of doom
- 8. Mythic Hungarian bird presaging fate or divine will
- 9. Old Germanic term for witchcraft, entailing clandestine maleficia
- 10. Seaweed once used in Norse rites to repel malevolent spirits
- 11. Ancient symbol of serpent eating its tail, evoking cyclical fate
- 12. Japanese invisible entity notorious for cutting hair at midnight
- 14. Describes terrifying, ghostlike phenomena tied to curses
- 15. Fey female spirits in Indian lore, alternately guardians or harbingers
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