[maryz]

I don't know why you included me here -- I wasn't in that particular discussion. On your other question though (as if L.M. Montgomery weren't enough!) -- this guy's against the practice (as well as other accepted ones), but attests that it goes on:

The pagans, even such grand old pagans as the Romans, before undertaking any important action would solemnly consult the auspices. . . . Intelligent people use the Bible in some such way. When at a loss how to proceed, instead of calmly consulting their own judgments and the judgments of their wisest friends, and then acting like reasonable beings, men and women will open their Bibles at random, let then-eyes rest on the first verse which arrests their attention, and accept any possible bearing on the question in hand as the voice of God. The journals of John Wesley and other eminent men contain examples of this abuse of the Bible. [emphasis added.]

Maybe the wording I remembered is a local Prince Edward Islandism.

[1000 silverlings]

If any one of us ever preached that or defended it, you might have a case. However, it appears to be a superstition of isolated people, and not a well-known one at that. It has the appearance of ‘tempting God” and all the Christians I know, avoid that.

[OLD REGGIE]

I don't know why you included me here -- I wasn't in that particular discussion. On your other question though (as if L.M. Montgomery weren't enough!) -- this guy's against the practice (as well as other accepted ones), but attests that it goes on:

Please see #2531. You were the primary addressee.

Now it's my turn. I have no idea what you are talking about here.

[Marysecretary]

I loved the Anne series on TV, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables. Great shows.