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Notable in an off-year special election about the arcane and complicated process of redistricting, 71% of likely voters said they had heard a significant amount of information about the ballot measure, according to the poll.

It is true that basing a fiction on a lot of arcane knowledge runs the risk of leaving the uninitiated confused or simply unengaged.

Joe Reade from the Mull Campus working group told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that being forced to send children off the island to board for school is an "arcane" thing to do.

He was exploiting an arcane loophole on a much larger mission to become the next chess world champion.

Major League Baseball is filled with arcane statistics and historical quirks, but as this season barrels toward the playoffs one stat almost defies belief.