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Boris Dochkaev, Fortune-Telling with a Stick


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Terbish, Baasanjav 

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Boris shows how to do fortune-telling using a stick:One should hold a stick, measure a space equivalent to the width of two fingers, and from that point start doing cuts downwards on three sides of the stick. Then peel off three cuts at a time. The number of remaining cuts, that cannot be more than three, is used for fortune-telling. It is done as follows. Three cuts signify ‘closure’. Two cuts – ‘a road’, and one – ‘a joy’. For example, if one is to make divination regarding lost cattle, three cuts left on the stick means that ‘someone has closed the cattle somewhere’, two – ‘the cattle wanders by themselves or someone has taken them somewhere’, one – ‘the cattle will be found soon’.

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fortune-telling, stick

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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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