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Esoteric Prohibitions of Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Act of shunning prohibited spaces or persons
- 2. Violating kinship boundaries prescribed by ancient laws
- 5. Prohibition of images, widespread ancient iconoclastic taboo
- 6. Pertaining to land demarcation, sometimes carrying taboos
- 10. To captivate, akin to how spirits were feared to possess or taboo
- 11. State violating ritual cleanliness in archaic cultures
- 13. One who instigates unrest, often taboo in hierarchical societies
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- 3. To forbid officially, reflecting ancient communal taboos
- 4. Violation of sacred objects or rites by ancient sects
- 7. Designed to ward off evil, linked to forbidden magic
- 8. Ancient codes regulating unclean bodily states or behaviors
- 9. Forbidden acts or images violating ancient moral codes
- 12. To detest or curse, often used in ritual prohibitions
- 14. Taboos connected to death rites and burial customs
- 15. Belief forbidding harm to the emblematic animal or plant
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