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Barotse basket diviner. The diviner shakes various objects in the winnowing basket and, by interpreting their final juxtaposition, seeks to predict the outcome of an illness and to name the sorcerer responsible.

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Barotse basket diviner. The diviner shakes various objects in the winnowing basket and, by interpreting their final juxtaposition, seeks to predict the outcome of an illness and to name the sorcerer responsible.

Barotse basket diviner. The diviner shakes various objects in the winnowing basket...

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Le fou (“the fool”), from the Jerger tarot, 17th century.

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