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Medieval monks practiced bibliomancy by blindly pointing at random Bible verses to make major life decisions
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It was the Middle Ages' version of the magic 8-ball, except you're using holy scripture to decide whether to buy a cow. Instead of praying for nuanced guidance, monks would just flip open a holy book, stab a finger at a random paragraph, and interpret the totally unrelated verse as direct divine instruction.
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