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Esoteric Rites and Cryptic Customs
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- 1. Study of trees, central to sacred arboreal rites
- 5. Observation of signs foretelling future events
- 6. Offering to a deity, often involving blood or symbolic relinquishment
- 11. Sessions to communicate with spirits posthumously
- 12. Doctrine attributing spiritual essence to natural phenomena
- 13. Obsolete term for ritualistic healing by surgery or magic
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- 2. Ancient charm believed to ward off envy or evil eye
- 3. Use of imagery or signs to convey deeper ritual meanings
- 4. Designed to ward off evil, derived from Greek protective magic
- 7. Divination through stones, a form of geomantic tradition
- 8. Ritual to expel malevolent entities or demons
- 9. Hypnotic ritual named after a pioneering 18th-century healer
- 10. Belief system linking clans with symbolic animal ancestors
- 14. Obscure ritual involving sacred geometry and shadow play
- 15. Infant wrapped in cloth for baptismal purification
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