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To: PIF

Entrails are mentioned as being used for divination in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, although what troubled the augurers was the fact that “they could not find a heart within the beast”.


20 posted on 05/19/2021 4:47:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah, perhaps, but as I said the original was liver - going back many thousands of years. Will’s England was rather a later tradition.


21 posted on 05/19/2021 5:08:05 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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