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Enigmatic Rituals of Rare Festivals
Explore lesser-known global festival customs through this crossword featuring unique and obscure traditions.
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- 1. A whimsical Welsh celebration marking the first full moon of spring
- 2. Iranian tradition jumping over bonfires for purification
- 3. Russian festival involving pranks on April Fool’s Day
- 4. Festival where paper lanterns are floated down rivers in Thailand
- 6. Indigenous North American ceremonial feast emphasizing gift giving
- 10. Mongolian festival honoring spirits of the wind with horse races
- 11. Hungarian tradition of chasing away evil spirits with a wooden stick
- 14. Pacific island festival celebrating the lunar cycle with chants
- 16. Romanian ritual where men dress as bears to ward off evil
- 20. Japanese festival celebrating firewalking rituals
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- 5. Basque folk dance performed during obscure spring festivals
- 7. Filipino festival combining water splashing and mud wrestling
- 8. Australian Indigenous ceremony involving symbolic frog dances
- 9. Catalan tradition involving a log that ‘defecates’ gifts
- 12. Spanish tomato-throwing street festival
- 13. Swiss custom involving spinning illuminated batons in night parades
- 15. Festival in coastal communities featuring sand dollar displays
- 17. A quirky Easter race involving costumes and hopping
- 18. Arctic festival where participants wear elaborate ice crystal costumes
- 19. A Cornish festival where a rag doll is paraded through town
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