Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Forbidden Rituals and Cursed Codes
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. To forbid or outlaw, often with ritual or legal weight
- 2. Veneration of inanimate objects, often taboo in monotheism
- 3. Ancient Egyptian ritual preserving bodies, taboo outside elites
- 5. Ethnic allegiance often enforcing exclusive communal restrictions
- 8. Marriage custom substituting deceased wife's sister to avoid taboo
- 11. Sacred land in agrarian cults, touching it often forbidden
- 14. Social prohibitions often rooted in supernatural dread
- 15. Prohibited kinship union, universally shunned by ancient laws
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- 4. Sacred promises whose breach was considered a grave taboo
- 6. Medieval ecclesiastical ban isolating heretics and taboo breakers
- 7. Eating human flesh, a primal violation in most societies
- 9. Forbidden arts linked to ancient magic and dark rites
- 10. Systematic destruction taboo breaking all moral ancient codes
- 12. Southern Italian unwritten code forbidding betrayal
- 13. Taboo against harming symbolic clan animal or emblem
- 16. Ancient sign interpreted to avoid forbidden acts
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