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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: and copied an oral ritual among the swamp cult-worshippers his
men had arrested, he besought the professor to remember as best
he might the syllables taken down amongst the diabolist Esquimaux.
There then followed an exhaustive comparison of details, and a
moment of really awed silence when both detective and scientist
agreed on the virtual identity of the phrase common to two hellish
rituals so many worlds of distance apart. What, in substance,
both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had
chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the
word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the
phrase as chanted aloud:
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