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IN your issue of May 13 (p. 30), Mr. Kumagusu Minakata quotes several examples of augury from the combat of shell-fish. In Spencer St. John's “Life in the Forests of the Far East,” vol. i. p. 77, amongst various ordeals related by him as being practised by the Sea-Dyaks of Sarawak, he gives the following:—“Another is with two land shells, which are put on a plate and lime-juice squeezed upon them, and the one that moved first shows the guilt or innocence of the owner, according as they have settled previously whether motion or rest is to prove the case.”
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SILBERRAD, C. On Augury from Combat of Shell-fish. Nature 56, 494 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056494c0
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