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{"id": "CLM-0016", "item_id": "ITEM-0014", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "The text names the five elements of worship as wine, meat, fish, parched grain and woman, ranks the kinds of each, says wine taken without the accompanying purificatory food is like poison, and holds that in the Kali age the fifth element should be only the practitioner's own wife.", "period": "", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0021", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "ch. VI, vv. 1–14 (1913 ed., pp. 103–104)", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04. Read from the readable copy of the same 1913 edition (ia:dli.ernet.205077). The text treats the elements as literal substances, with restrictions.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0014", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0011", "name": "Kaula ritual of the five elements (pañcatattva)", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Initiates gathered in a ritual circle (cakra)", "restriction_mechanism": "grade_requirement;social_sanction", "stated_reason": "The rite is held to be dangerous for, or misunderstood by, the uninitiated", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "A rite using five substances or acts conventionally forbidden in orthodox practice, interpreted literally or symbolically depending on the lineage.", "notes": ""}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0011", "name": "Śākta Tantra (Kaula and Śrīvidyā)", "tradition_type": "religious_branch", "founded": "c. 9th–11th century", "region": "India / Nepal", "status": "active", "wikidata": "Q849345", "notes": "Goddess-centred tantric lineages; the Wikidata item is for Shaktism as a whole."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0021", "title": "Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahānirvāṇa Tantra)", "author": "Arthur Avalon (John Woodroffe), trans.", "original_year": "1913", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.205077", "identifiers": "ia:b24878376;ia:dli.ernet.205077", "provenance": "archival_collection", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "The Sanskrit text's date and authority are disputed; some scholars place it in the late 18th century. Linked copy is the 1913 edition with readable text; the Wellcome scan (ia:b24878376) was OCR'd as Sanskrit and its text layer is unusable.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0021", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0021", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}]}
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Contradicted only on the name of the second grade: the Felicissimus mosaic (SRC-0045, CLM-0043) assigns that place to the Nymphus (Bridegroom), the name used in modern scholarship. 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{"id": "CLM-0039", "item_id": "ITEM-0004", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "The First Knowledge Lecture covers the four elements and their qualities, the twelve signs of the zodiac by triplicity, the seven planets of the ancients and the lunar nodes, the Hebrew alphabet and the ten Sephiroth. It is followed by the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram: with a steel dagger the student makes the Qabalistic Cross (Ateh, Malkuth, ve-Geburah, ve-Gedulah, le-Olam, Amen), draws a pentagram in each quarter while vibrating YHVH, Adonai, Eheieh and Agla, and calls on Raphael, Gabriel, Michael and Auriel.", "period": "1937 (as published); Stella Matutina practice", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0008", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "vol. 1, pp. 99–107", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Checked against the Internet Archive text of Volume One (1937) on 2026-11-04. Regardie places the pentagram ritual immediately after the First Knowledge Lecture; the banishing form reverses the direction of the pentagrams.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0004", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0002", "name": "Knowledge lectures and inner-order teachings", "secrecy_type": "graded_doctrine", "restricted_to": "Initiates of each grade", "restriction_mechanism": "oath;grade_requirement", "stated_reason": "Teaching must follow the candidate's progress", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Instructional papers on Kabbalah / astrology / geomancy / ritual magic issued grade by grade.", "notes": ""}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0002", "name": "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn", "tradition_type": "magical_order", "founded": "1888", "region": "United Kingdom", "status": "dormant", "wikidata": "Q368173", "notes": "Original order fragmented after 1900; several modern successor orders claim the name."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0008", "title": "The Golden Dawn (4 vols.)", "author": "Israel Regardie", "original_year": "1937–1940", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "book", "url": "https://archive.org/details/IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol2-1938", "identifiers": "ol:OL1989588W;ia:IsraelRegardie-thegoldenDawn-vol1-1937;ia:IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol2-1938;ia:IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol3-1939;ia:IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol4-1940", "provenance": "defector_account", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Aries Press, Chicago. Based on Stella Matutina papers. Linked copy is Volume Two (1938): Rituals of the First Order and the Portal.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0008", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0008", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0004", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
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{"id": "CLM-0084", "item_id": "ITEM-0036", "claim_type": "historical_practice", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "At Newettee a female slave asked to dance for the hamatsa was killed with an axe by her master as she danced, and was eaten by the hamatsa.", "period": "before the 1890s", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0076", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0076: p. 440", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Boas reports this as the account of Q'omEna'kula, who took part and had died a few years before Boas wrote; Q'omEna'kula told him fresh human flesh was much harder to eat than dried corpses. Testimony relayed second-hand; no independent source recorded yet. Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0036", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0028", "name": "Hamatsa initiation and the eating of flesh", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Initiated members of the hamatsa society and the other winter-ceremonial societies", "restriction_mechanism": "grade_requirement;social_sanction", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Kwakwaka'wakw source", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The initiation of a new hamatsa, who is held to be taken away to the woods by the cannibal spirit BaxbakualanuXsiwae and returns possessed, biting people and eating human flesh before he is tamed.", "notes": "Boas (SRC-0076, pp. 440–441) already reports that by the 1890s the biting was done by a sleight of hand (CLM-0082)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0028", "name": "Kwakwaka'wakw religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "ancient", "region": "Northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland coast (British Columbia)", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Older literature calls the people Kwakiutl. The winter ceremonial is organised in dancing societies led by the hamatsa (Wikidata Q5644160 for the hamatsa). Wikidata has no item for the religion."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0076", "title": "The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians", "author": "Franz Boas", "original_year": "1897", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://archive.org/details/socialorganizati00boas", "identifiers": "ia:socialorganizati00boas", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 (Washington, 1897), pp. 311–738. Read in the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0076", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0076", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0036", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0085", "item_id": "ITEM-0036", "claim_type": "suppression", "suppression_method": "official_condemnation", "statement": "Section 3 of the 1884 amendment to the Indian Act made it a misdemeanour, punishable by two to six months' imprisonment, to take part in or encourage the 'Potlach' festival or the 'Tamanawas' dance, and the potlatch stayed illegal from 1885 to 1951. People who attended Chief Dan Cranmer's potlatch at Village Island in 1921 were charged and tried; the chiefs were made to sign a promise to give up the potlatch, twenty who refused were jailed, and the community's masks and regalia (the Potlatch Collection) were taken under this agreement. 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{"id": "CLM-0086", "item_id": "ITEM-0037", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "Questioned in court in 1692, the noaidi Anders Paulsen identified 25 figures on his drum. He explained five through nature (storm, thunder, wild reindeer, the sun and the moon) and the rest through Christian ideas (the Trinity, the church, biblical figures and the devil). He said the drum could ease women's pain in childbirth, find stolen property and drive out dark forces.", "period": "1692", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0078;SRC-0079", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0078: section on the 1692 trial; SRC-0079: section on the drum", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "SRC-0079 gives the figures, SRC-0078 the uses. Both draw on the same court record (SRC-0080), so they count as one origin. SRC-0079 warns that the court record is an important source but should not be taken at face value, and that Paulsen gave conflicting accounts of where his drum came from. Read on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0037", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "The noaidi drum (goavddis) and the meaning of its figures", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Noaidi and drum owners", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Sámi source", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The drum painted with figures of gods, spirits, people and animals, struck to move a pointer across the figures for divination, healing and finding lost things, and the knowledge of what each figure means.", "notes": "Nearly all early knowledge of the figures comes from missionaries and court records (CLM-0086)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "Sámi religion (noaidi practice)", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "ancient", "region": "Sápmi (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula)", "status": "dormant", "wikidata": "Q735329", "notes": "Ritual specialists (noaidi) used the drum (goavddis, runebomme) for divination and healing. The practice was prosecuted as witchcraft by Danish-Norwegian and Swedish authorities in the 17th and 18th centuries (CLM-0087)."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0078", "title": "Return of a Sámi Drum", "author": "Elin Hofverberg", "original_year": "2022", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "website", "url": "https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/02/return-of-a-smi-drum/", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "In Custodia Legis, the Law Library of Congress blog, by a foreign law specialist of the Law Library; read on 2026-11-04.", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "2 February 2022. A work of a US federal employee.", "artifacts": []}, {"id": "SRC-0079", "title": "Anders Paulsen", "author": "Einar Niemi; Liv Helene Willumsen; Rune Blix Hagen", "original_year": "", "edition_year": "2026", "source_type": "website", "url": "https://snl.no/Anders_Paulsen", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Store norske leksikon; signed article by three historians at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, last updated 5 October 2026; read on 2026-11-04.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "In Norwegian. The name is spelled Paulsen here and Poulsen in SRC-0078.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0078", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0079", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0087", "item_id": "ITEM-0037", "claim_type": "suppression", "suppression_method": "official_condemnation", "statement": "In 1609 King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway ordered that Sámi found guilty of sorcery be sentenced to death without mercy, and using a drum was treated as sorcery. Anders Paulsen's drum was confiscated on 7 December 1691; he was tried at Vadsø on 9–10 February 1692, held without sentence while Copenhagen was consulted, and killed with an axe on 11 February by a mentally unstable man, Villem Gundersen, who was himself tried later that month.", "period": "1609–1692", "claim_support": "independently_corroborated", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0078;SRC-0079;SRC-0086", "independent_source_ids": "SRC-0078;SRC-0079;SRC-0086", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0078: background and trial sections; SRC-0079: whole article; SRC-0086: pp. 143–144", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "The three sources are independent secondary works. SRC-0078 calls the killer a jailor; SRC-0079 and SRC-0086 (which names him and his trial on 22 and 24 February) describe him as a person not of sound mind, so the jailor detail is set aside. SRC-0086 describes the 1609 measure as a letter to the district governors of Vardøhus and Nordland. The 1693 transfer, previously included here but resting only on SRC-0079, is recorded separately in CLM-0114. 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{"id": "CLM-0090", "item_id": "ITEM-0038", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "The mushrooms are not treated as a cure in themselves: people 'consult' them in grave trouble. They are asked what caused an illness, whether the patient will live or die and what will help; who stole a donkey and where it will be found; and whether a son who has gone away is alive, in jail, married or prospering.", "period": "1950s", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0081", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0081: p. 118", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Wasson adds that when the verdict is death the patient and family resign themselves and begin preparing the wake. Read on Google Books on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0038", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "The mushroom vigil (velada) and the 'saint children'", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Mazatec families and patients gathered by a healer; kept from outsiders until 1955", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Outsiders who take the mushrooms without need spoil them: they lose their purity and force (CLM-0094)", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "An all-night rite in which a healer and the participants eat psilocybin mushrooms in the dark, and the healer chants and consults the mushrooms about sickness, lost things and absent people.", "notes": "Made public by R. Gordon Wasson's account in Life (1957) of a vigil led by María Sabina, whom he called Eva Mendez."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Mazatec mushroom religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "pre-Columbian (mushroom rites); blended with Catholicism after the conquest", "region": "Sierra Mazateca (Huautla de Jiménez and neighbouring towns), Oaxaca, Mexico", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Healers (curanderos, sabios) hold night vigils with psilocybin mushrooms, which they call the saint children. Wikidata has items for the Mazatec people (Q1262708) and for María Sabina (Q442467) but not for the religion."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0081", "title": "Seeking the Magic Mushroom", "author": "R. Gordon Wasson", "original_year": "1957", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "periodical", "url": "https://books.google.com/books?id=Jj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA100", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Read in the full-view scan of the issue on Google Books on 2026-11-04 (OCR of the page images); the issue, date, title and pages match the standard citation.", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Life 42, no. 19 (13 May 1957), pp. 100–102, 109–120, in the series Great Adventures. Wasson's account of the vigil he attended at Huautla de Jiménez on 29–30 June 1955. Calls the curandera 'Eva Mendez' and the language 'Mixeteco' (CLM-0093).", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0081", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0038", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
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{"id": "CLM-0106", "item_id": "ITEM-0037", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "Paulsen got answers from the drum by striking it with a hammer so that a ring danced on the skin; if it danced anticlockwise the person he played for would have bad luck. Lifting the drum high, he said, brought an answer 'as when two persons speak to each other'. In court he showed this by lifting the drum and saying the Lord's Prayer in Finnish. He said his mother had taught him (at one point he named another man), and that the god worshipped were the figures he had painted, about whom his mother had taught him.", "period": "1692", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0086", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0086: pp. 143, 146, 149", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Quoted by Willumsen from the court record (SRC-0080). Read in the publisher's PDF on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0037", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "The noaidi drum (goavddis) and the meaning of its figures", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Noaidi and drum owners", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Sámi source", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The drum painted with figures of gods, spirits, people and animals, struck to move a pointer across the figures for divination, healing and finding lost things, and the knowledge of what each figure means.", "notes": "Nearly all early knowledge of the figures comes from missionaries and court records (CLM-0086)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "Sámi religion (noaidi practice)", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "ancient", "region": "Sápmi (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula)", "status": "dormant", "wikidata": "Q735329", "notes": "Ritual specialists (noaidi) used the drum (goavddis, runebomme) for divination and healing. The practice was prosecuted as witchcraft by Danish-Norwegian and Swedish authorities in the 17th and 18th centuries (CLM-0087)."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0086", "title": "The Witchcraft Trial against Anders Poulsen, Vadsø 1692: Critical Perspectives", "author": "Liv Helene Willumsen", "original_year": "2022", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/chapters/10.16993/bbu.f", "identifiers": "doi:10.16993/bbu.f", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Open-access chapter read in the publisher's PDF on 2026-11-04.", "rights": "open_license", "content_hash": "", "notes": "In Håkan Rydving and Konsta Kaikkonen (eds.), Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons (Stockholm University Press, 2022), pp. 139–160. Quotes Paulsen's explanation of every row of figures from the court record (SRC-0080).", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0086", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0107", "item_id": "ITEM-0037", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "Paulsen explained his drum row by row. First row: Ilmaris (storm and bad weather), Diermis (thunder) and the wild reindeer Gvodde (luck in hunting); each can do good when God is prayed to, or harm, and asking for harm is sinful. Second row: Peive (the sun, for good weather at calving and growing time), the child Jumal (Christ), Juma-Etziem (God the father), Dom Kirch (the cathedral) and Engil (the Holy Spirit), with staffs called Juncher sabbe or Herr Sabbe like those of earthly lords. Third row: St Anne, Mary (also Jumal Enne or Jumal Ache, 'God's wife', who helps women in childbirth) and three Christmas masters, Oucht, Gought and Gvolme Jule Peive. Fourth row: Manna (the moon) and men going to and from church. Fifth row: the wife of the bound devil, a devil of disease, the devil loose in the world, Hilvet Tol (the flames of hell), Hilved Tarve Giedme (hell's tar cauldron), Hilvet Haufd (hell's grave) and Hvenaales Gvolisis, the devil bound in chains at the creation.", "period": "1692", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0086", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0086: pp. 146–151", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Quoted and summarised by Willumsen from the court record (SRC-0080); the record also has drawings of the flames, cauldron and grave of hell. Willumsen notes the officials doubted his Christian readings. Read in the publisher's PDF on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0037", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "The noaidi drum (goavddis) and the meaning of its figures", "secrecy_type": "transmitted_technique", "restricted_to": "Noaidi and drum owners", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Sámi source", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "The drum painted with figures of gods, spirits, people and animals, struck to move a pointer across the figures for divination, healing and finding lost things, and the knowledge of what each figure means.", "notes": "Nearly all early knowledge of the figures comes from missionaries and court records (CLM-0086)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0029", "name": "Sámi religion (noaidi practice)", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "ancient", "region": "Sápmi (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula)", "status": "dormant", "wikidata": "Q735329", "notes": "Ritual specialists (noaidi) used the drum (goavddis, runebomme) for divination and healing. The practice was prosecuted as witchcraft by Danish-Norwegian and Swedish authorities in the 17th and 18th centuries (CLM-0087)."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0086", "title": "The Witchcraft Trial against Anders Poulsen, Vadsø 1692: Critical Perspectives", "author": "Liv Helene Willumsen", "original_year": "2022", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/chapters/10.16993/bbu.f", "identifiers": "doi:10.16993/bbu.f", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Open-access chapter read in the publisher's PDF on 2026-11-04.", "rights": "open_license", "content_hash": "", "notes": "In Håkan Rydving and Konsta Kaikkonen (eds.), Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons (Stockholm University Press, 2022), pp. 139–160. Quotes Paulsen's explanation of every row of figures from the court record (SRC-0080).", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0086", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0108", "item_id": "ITEM-0038", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "The mushrooms for a vigil are usually gathered in the evening at full moon, sometimes by a young virgin, and taken to a church to be blessed on the altar before use. If the girl who picked them passes a dead animal on the way, she must throw them away, go back to where they grew, gather fresh ones and return by another path.", "period": "20th century", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0083", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0083: section on childhood", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Allen gives no primary source for these rules. Read on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0038", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "The mushroom vigil (velada) and the 'saint children'", "secrecy_type": "closed_liturgy", "restricted_to": "Mazatec families and patients gathered by a healer; kept from outsiders until 1955", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Outsiders who take the mushrooms without need spoil them: they lose their purity and force (CLM-0094)", "current_status": "modified", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "An all-night rite in which a healer and the participants eat psilocybin mushrooms in the dark, and the healer chants and consults the mushrooms about sickness, lost things and absent people.", "notes": "Made public by R. Gordon Wasson's account in Life (1957) of a vigil led by María Sabina, whom he called Eva Mendez."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Mazatec mushroom religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "pre-Columbian (mushroom rites); blended with Catholicism after the conquest", "region": "Sierra Mazateca (Huautla de Jiménez and neighbouring towns), Oaxaca, Mexico", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Healers (curanderos, sabios) hold night vigils with psilocybin mushrooms, which they call the saint children. Wikidata has items for the Mazatec people (Q1262708) and for María Sabina (Q442467) but not for the religion."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0083", "title": "María Sabina: Saint Mother of the Sacred Mushrooms", "author": "John W. Allen", "original_year": "", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "website", "url": "https://erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_article6.shtml", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "scholarship", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "copyrighted", "content_hash": "", "notes": "From the author's Mushroom Pioneers; archived by Erowid with his permission (page last modified 21 February 2015). Draws mainly on Wasson and Estrada. Read in Chrome on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0083", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0083", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0038", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0109", "item_id": "ITEM-0039", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "Many, perhaps most, Mazatec families keep a private supply of Salvia divinorum, planted from cuttings in remote ravines away from houses and trails where passers-by might see them, and they are loath to reveal the spots: no one in San José Tenango would take Wasson to the plants. Since the late 1950s, with a market for mushrooms, landowners have begun enforcing their rights to the plants.", "period": "1962", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0085", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0085: pp. 78–79", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0039", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Divination with the leaves of the Shepherdess (Salvia divinorum) and the hidden plantings", "secrecy_type": "restricted_oral_knowledge", "restricted_to": "Mazatec families who keep the plant and the curanderos who use it", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Mazatec source", "current_status": "practiced", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Leaves of a sage grown only in cultivation, chewed or rubbed into water and taken at night to divine the cause of a sickness or the whereabouts of stolen and lost things; the plantings are kept in hidden places.", "notes": "Described to science by Wasson in 1962 (SRC-0085)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Mazatec mushroom religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "pre-Columbian (mushroom rites); blended with Catholicism after the conquest", "region": "Sierra Mazateca (Huautla de Jiménez and neighbouring towns), Oaxaca, Mexico", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Healers (curanderos, sabios) hold night vigils with psilocybin mushrooms, which they call the saint children. Wikidata has items for the Mazatec people (Q1262708) and for María Sabina (Q442467) but not for the religion."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0085", "title": "A New Mexican Psychotropic Drug from the Mint Family", "author": "R. Gordon Wasson", "original_year": "1962", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003541080", "identifiers": "ia:mobot31753003541080", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 20, no. 3 (1962), pp. 77–84. Linked copy is the bound volume 20 (1962–1964) digitised by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Includes a paraphrased translation of R. J. Weitlaner's 1952 informant account. Read in the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0085", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0085", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0039", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0110", "item_id": "ITEM-0039", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "Spanish-speaking Mazatecs call the plant hojas de la Pastora or hojas de María Pastora, 'leaves of (Mary) the Shepherdess', which translates the Mazatec ska Pastora. It is the female (la hembra) of a family of mints: the male (el macho) is Coleus pumila, and the child (el nene) and the godson (el ahijado) are forms of Coleus blumei. Ololiuqui (morning-glory seed) is called semilla de la Flor de la Virgen, but the Mazatecs prefer the leaves for divination. Leaves, like mushrooms, are counted in pairs, and the rites are always oriented to the east, never to the west, which is considered sinister.", "period": "1962", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0085", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0085: pp. 79, 81–82", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04. Wasson suggests 'Pastora' may cover a pre-Christian Lord of the animals; that is his conjecture.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0039", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Divination with the leaves of the Shepherdess (Salvia divinorum) and the hidden plantings", "secrecy_type": "restricted_oral_knowledge", "restricted_to": "Mazatec families who keep the plant and the curanderos who use it", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Mazatec source", "current_status": "practiced", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Leaves of a sage grown only in cultivation, chewed or rubbed into water and taken at night to divine the cause of a sickness or the whereabouts of stolen and lost things; the plantings are kept in hidden places.", "notes": "Described to science by Wasson in 1962 (SRC-0085)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Mazatec mushroom religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "pre-Columbian (mushroom rites); blended with Catholicism after the conquest", "region": "Sierra Mazateca (Huautla de Jiménez and neighbouring towns), Oaxaca, Mexico", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Healers (curanderos, sabios) hold night vigils with psilocybin mushrooms, which they call the saint children. Wikidata has items for the Mazatec people (Q1262708) and for María Sabina (Q442467) but not for the religion."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0085", "title": "A New Mexican Psychotropic Drug from the Mint Family", "author": "R. Gordon Wasson", "original_year": "1962", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003541080", "identifiers": "ia:mobot31753003541080", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 20, no. 3 (1962), pp. 77–84. Linked copy is the bound volume 20 (1962–1964) digitised by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Includes a paraphrased translation of R. J. Weitlaner's 1952 informant account. Read in the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0085", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0085", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0039", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0111", "item_id": "ITEM-0039", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "A curandero who goes to cut the plant must first kneel and pray to it, and cuts leaves only when they are needed. To divine a sickness the leaves are rubbed in unboiled water, fifty for a patient who does not drink alcohol and a hundred for one who does. At midnight the patient drinks it in a quiet, isolated house; in the trance that follows he speaks as in a trance and names his illness and shakes his clothes as if to free himself of the small creatures causing it, and at dawn he is bathed in the same water. For a theft or a lost thing the curandero listens to what the drinker says. A curer at Jalapa de Díaz who tended the plant would not reveal what kind of plant it was.", "period": "1950s", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0085", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0085: pp. 80–81", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "An informant's account recorded by R. J. Weitlaner (1952) and given by Wasson in paraphrased translation; not independent of Weitlaner. Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0039", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Divination with the leaves of the Shepherdess (Salvia divinorum) and the hidden plantings", "secrecy_type": "restricted_oral_knowledge", "restricted_to": "Mazatec families who keep the plant and the curanderos who use it", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;oral_only", "stated_reason": "Not yet recorded from a Mazatec source", "current_status": "practiced", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Leaves of a sage grown only in cultivation, chewed or rubbed into water and taken at night to divine the cause of a sickness or the whereabouts of stolen and lost things; the plantings are kept in hidden places.", "notes": "Described to science by Wasson in 1962 (SRC-0085)."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0030", "name": "Mazatec mushroom religion", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "pre-Columbian (mushroom rites); blended with Catholicism after the conquest", "region": "Sierra Mazateca (Huautla de Jiménez and neighbouring towns), Oaxaca, Mexico", "status": "active", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Healers (curanderos, sabios) hold night vigils with psilocybin mushrooms, which they call the saint children. Wikidata has items for the Mazatec people (Q1262708) and for María Sabina (Q442467) but not for the religion."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0085", "title": "A New Mexican Psychotropic Drug from the Mint Family", "author": "R. Gordon Wasson", "original_year": "1962", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "academic", "url": "https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003541080", "identifiers": "ia:mobot31753003541080", "provenance": "academic_fieldwork", "source_authenticity": "unassessed", "verification_notes": "", "rights": "public_domain", "content_hash": "", "notes": "Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 20, no. 3 (1962), pp. 77–84. Linked copy is the bound volume 20 (1962–1964) digitised by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Includes a paraphrased translation of R. J. Weitlaner's 1952 informant account. Read in the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0085", "code": "source_authenticity_unassessed", "message": "Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions."}, {"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0085", "code": "source_without_content_hash", "message": "No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead."}, {"table": "restricted_items", "record_id": "ITEM-0039", "code": "status_without_dated_evidence", "message": "The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked."}]}
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{"id": "CLM-0115", "item_id": "ITEM-0040", "claim_type": "content", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "The UN report describes FGM as a required component of Sande initiation in the Liberian regions it covers.", "period": "2012–2015", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0087", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0087: p. 4, para. 15", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Checked against the specified passage on 2026-11-04. One evidentiary origin is recorded; no independent corroboration is claimed.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0040", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0031", "name": "Sande bush initiation, genital cutting and restrictions on disclosure", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Initiated women and girls; ceremonies closed to non-members", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "Not established from a practitioner statement in the inspected sources", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Restricted initiation involving female genital mutilation (FGM), including documented coercion.", "notes": "Reports and testimony are attributed to their authors. The physical rites were not directly observed by UN monitors."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0031", "name": "Sande societies in Liberia", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Northern, western and central Liberia", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Spiritual and cultural initiation associations. Membership may coexist with Christianity or Islam. The records below concern the places and reporting periods in the cited sources, not all members or all Liberian traditions."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0087", "title": "An Assessment of Human Rights Issues Emanating from Traditional Practices in Liberia", "author": "United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL); Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)", "original_year": "2015", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "report", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/LR/HarmfulTraditionalPracticesLiberia.pdf", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "investigative_reporting", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Downloaded the official PDF on 2026-11-04 and inspected printed pp. 3–4, 15–19 and 23. The OHCHR and UNMIL-hosted copies have identical SHA-256 hashes; they are copies of one report, not independent evidence. Paragraph 13 describes restricted access and likely under-reporting.", "rights": "unknown", "content_hash": "sha256:67dae5aeb287a7a069113b2a519c9029c34ebf24ea8a070093e46979c42c42b7", "notes": "Published December 2015; reporting period January 2012–September 2015. Exact-copy hash is of the retrieved PDF; no public archival capture is asserted.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0087", "code": "source_rights_unknown", "message": "The source text's rights have not been established."}]}
{"id": "CLM-0116", "item_id": "ITEM-0040", "claim_type": "historical_practice", "suppression_method": "", "statement": "HRPS documented seven forced or attempted adult Sande initiations involving eleven women; at least five cases used FGM as threat or punishment.", "period": "2012–2015", "claim_support": "single_source", "supporting_source_ids": "SRC-0087", "independent_source_ids": "", "contradicting_source_ids": "", "locators": "SRC-0087: p. 17, para. 63", "review_status": "reviewed", "verification_notes": "Checked the report’s stated case count and examples. This is a documented-case count, not a prevalence estimate or a count of convictions.", "item": {"id": "ITEM-0040", "tradition_id": "TRAD-0031", "name": "Sande bush initiation, genital cutting and restrictions on disclosure", "secrecy_type": "initiatory_rite", "restricted_to": "Initiated women and girls; ceremonies closed to non-members", "restriction_mechanism": "social_sanction;violence_or_threat", "stated_reason": "Not established from a practitioner statement in the inspected sources", "current_status": "unknown", "status_as_of": "", "status_claim_ids": "", "description": "Restricted initiation involving female genital mutilation (FGM), including documented coercion.", "notes": "Reports and testimony are attributed to their authors. The physical rites were not directly observed by UN monitors."}, "tradition": {"id": "TRAD-0031", "name": "Sande societies in Liberia", "tradition_type": "indigenous_tradition", "founded": "", "region": "Northern, western and central Liberia", "status": "unknown", "wikidata": "", "notes": "Spiritual and cultural initiation associations. Membership may coexist with Christianity or Islam. The records below concern the places and reporting periods in the cited sources, not all members or all Liberian traditions."}, "supporting_sources": [{"id": "SRC-0087", "title": "An Assessment of Human Rights Issues Emanating from Traditional Practices in Liberia", "author": "United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL); Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)", "original_year": "2015", "edition_year": "", "source_type": "report", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/LR/HarmfulTraditionalPracticesLiberia.pdf", "identifiers": "", "provenance": "investigative_reporting", "source_authenticity": "verified", "verification_notes": "Downloaded the official PDF on 2026-11-04 and inspected printed pp. 3–4, 15–19 and 23. The OHCHR and UNMIL-hosted copies have identical SHA-256 hashes; they are copies of one report, not independent evidence. Paragraph 13 describes restricted access and likely under-reporting.", "rights": "unknown", "content_hash": "sha256:67dae5aeb287a7a069113b2a519c9029c34ebf24ea8a070093e46979c42c42b7", "notes": "Published December 2015; reporting period January 2012–September 2015. Exact-copy hash is of the retrieved PDF; no public archival capture is asserted.", "artifacts": []}], "contradicting_sources": [], "dataset": {"name": "open-arcana", "version": "0.3.0", "metadata_license": "CC0-1.0", "snapshot_sha256": "fd755a0cc0c78cf43dac965d39908085b13b246532d888525645150e391f8e45"}, "quality_issues": [{"table": "sources", "record_id": "SRC-0087", "code": "source_rights_unknown", "message": "The source text's rights have not been established."}]}
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