Foretelling doom by dropping heavy iron keys
Dropping your keys wasn't an annoyance, it was an omen. Practitioners would tie a key to a holy book and wait for it to shift on its own. If the metal moved during a specific verse, it was taken as absolute confirmation of impending disaster.

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