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Enigmatic Rites of Mountainous Hamlets
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  • 1. Ceremonial flaying or symbolic skin shedding, often painful
  • 2. Origins of communal spirit formation in animistic practices
  • 5. Shamanic figure central to ritual mediation and healing
  • 6. Belief system wherein clans venerate symbolic emblems
  • 10. Ancient journey metaphor, symbolizing ritualistic ascension
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  • 3. Formal approval step in ancient covenant or ritual accord
  • 4. Adjective describing rites warding off evil or misfortune
  • 7. Formal rebuke embedded in communal purification rites
  • 8. Repetitive invocation used to induce trance or focus
  • 9. Divinatory art involving spirits of the departed
  • 11. Obscure Old French root of clandestine magical rites

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