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Esoteric Festive Rituals and Customs
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- 1. Barbed decorated sticks plunged during a Spanish bull ritual
- 2. Ancient nocturnal festival where city lights are ritualistically extinguished
- 4. Ceremonial Scottish prayer involving hidden symbolic keys
- 5. Material used in ancient festival decorations built from interwoven branches
- 6. Peruvian masked dance mimicking animal spirits in native ceremonies
- 8. Pertaining to macabre customs found in Halloween-type festivals
- 10. Alpine demon figure punishing naughty children in December festivities
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- 3. Annual Spanish event marked by a massive fruit-fight frenzy
- 7. Thai New Year water festival symbolizing purification
- 9. Traditional Indian harvest celebration invoking rain gods
- 11. Japanese lantern ritual where spirits are guided back home
- 12. Illuminated paper structure floated in East Asian commemorative rites
- 13. Haitian practice invoking spiritual possession during festival rites
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