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would he had in all affairs of deep interest. It was consulted for the result of a Battle or of a Ballplay and in cases of sickness & for news of distant friends.

     For the event of battle or a ballplay, two word scratched out would choose sides, one representing each antagonist. By the course of the bead, after various conjurations of the Possesser, the result of the contest was to be inferred. To words scratched out the side of the line next?  words lined out either of the inquirers whither it floated, there was a promise of victory. word scratched out
     In cases of sickness or of inquiries further about the use was more word scratched out complex. It was only appealed to as a desperate resource; but then it was unclear with deep reverence & often from vast distances. It was supposed to give the possessor a power of second sight. He would conjure awhile & the movement of the bead would show him that the distant friend was living. If to the Conjurer he appeared stooping words scratched out, he was sick; scratched out and if he did not rise, upon certain incantations, his case was hopeless & it would be useless to go to his succour. A sick person seen half bent was in great danger, but if erect, in safety. This is as near as possible the form of the Divining Stone.  A sketch of the above described