Anthropologists find that oracles and divination commonly use techniques that generate random outcomes.
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Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2026
All of them are concerned with legacy, particularly among fathers and daughters (Shakespeare had two and lost his only son), and all of them touch a realm beyond the mundane — a place of gods and dreams, oracles and enchantment.
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