By Nigel Pennick. Traces the history of good fortune from sacred divination to modern gambling. Explores dice as originally sacred divinatory tools, geomancy, medieval grimoires, cowrie shells, bones, coins and other systems, as well as the Roman goddess Fortuna and the evolution of luck into gaming and chance.
By Nigel Pennick. Traces the history of good fortune from sacred divination to modern gambling. Explores dice as originally sacred divinatory tools, geomancy, medieval grimoires, cowrie shells, bones, coins and other systems, as well as the Roman goddess Fortuna and the evolution of luck into gaming and chance.
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