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Identifier: chessplayingcard00culi (find matches)
Title: Chess and playing cards
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 United States National Museum University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Subjects: Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) Chess Playing cards Games
Publisher: Washington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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blocks, if both fall with their curved sides uppermost the indication is a negativeone, neither good or evil; if both fall with the flat sides uppermost the indicationi- unfavorable; if one falls with the curved side uppermost and the other the reversethe Indication is good. It is customary to throw the blocks until they fall threenines alike in succession. • Pop the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the ways, at the head of twoways, to use divination. He shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim,he looked in the liver (K. V.), CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 901 in which marked arrows were shaken from a quiver. Ten or elevenarrows were used, of which seven were marked. They were made ofthe wood of a particular tree, and were of a yellow eolor. The sevenmarked arrows which had distinguishing notches on the shaftmentwere each designated by a name. A very complete account of the game is given by Dr. Anton Hiiber,1of which an extract is to be found in Korean Games, XXXIII.
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Fig. 212 DIVINING-BLOCKS (kau plri). Length, (5J inches. China. Cat. No. 9047, Museum of Archteology, University of Pennsylvania. It should be observed that the term al maisar (meisir) is now under-stood to include all games of chance or hazard.- The heathen Arabswere accustomed to divine by means of arrows in a manner similar tothe Meisir, of which an account is found in the Preliminary Discourseto Sales Koran.:) Ober das Meisir genannte Spiel <ler heidnischen Araber, Leipzig. L883. 2HughesDictionary of Islam. Another practice of the idolatrous Arabs, forbidden also in one of the above-mentioned passages (Koran, Chap. V), was that of divining by arrows. The anused by them for this purpose were like those with which they east lots, being \\ it li-mit heads or feathers, and were kept in the temple of some idol, in whose presencethey were consulted. Seven Bach arrows were kepi at the temple of Mecca, bulgenerally in divination they made use of three only, on one of w hieh W as w ritt

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