How People of the Past Predicted the Future, From Spider Divination to Bibliomancy
Briefly

Anthropologists and historians like us study divination because it sheds light on the fears and anxieties of particular cultures, many of which are universal.
In Cameroon, Mambila spider divination poses difficult questions to spiders or land crabs that live in holes in the ground, helping to cope with life's uncertainties.
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