Some articles on drawing lots, lots, drawing:
Teutonic Alphabet - History and Use - Magical or Divinatory Use
... accounts of what some believe to be the use of runes for divination, but Rimbert calls it "drawing lots" ... changes his mind and asks the Danes to "draw lots" ... According to the story, this "drawing of lots" was quite informative, telling them that attacking Birka would bring bad luck and that they should attack a Slavic ...
... accounts of what some believe to be the use of runes for divination, but Rimbert calls it "drawing lots" ... changes his mind and asks the Danes to "draw lots" ... According to the story, this "drawing of lots" was quite informative, telling them that attacking Birka would bring bad luck and that they should attack a Slavic ...
Famous quotes containing the words lots and/or drawing:
“It’s not money that brings happiness, it’s lots of money.”
—Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)