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Esoteric Rituals and Curious Customs
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Controversial practice dissected through an ethical unusual lens—displays of scholarly ritual or cruelty?
  • 2. DANCE Late 19th-century Native American ritual promising resurrection and renewal
  • 4. Participant who leads the chaotic and sometimes surreal Latin festival processions
  • 9. Though a weed, culturally associated with wish rituals and divination worldwide
  • 10. Island whose cultural rites blend Arabic, African, and Hindu oddities
  • 16. Amazonian tribe famous for complex shamanistic rites involving endocannibalistic myths
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  • 3. Traditional folk magic or witchcraft rituals, often syncretized with colonial myths
  • 5. Ceremonial installation of monarchs, often steeped in arcane rites
  • 6. Obscure Japanese custom involving ritual rice cake offerings to spirits
  • 7. System of symbolic ancestral emblems central to many tribal customs
  • 8. Traditional Cuban dancers known for their ritualistic courtship patterns
  • 11. Mythological demon invoked symbolically in Indian temple festivals’ grotesque dances
  • 12. Artisanal Mexican role intertwined with ritualistic agave fermentation ceremonies
  • 13. Classical poetic tradition analogous to tribal retractions or ritual apologies
  • 14. Legendary creature featured in European rituals to repel evil with petrifying stare
  • 15. Ancient hospitality custom—ritualized hosting of strangers seen in remote cultures

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