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Game

A ritual or spell for good luck in games of chance involves using an eel that died from lack of water, the gall of a bull killed by dogs, a drachma of vulture blood, and a hangman’s rope. These components are placed inside the eel’s skin, hidden in hot manure for fifteen days, and then … Read more