Book thing

Stolen from lots of people.
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

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Likewise, the function of divination could easily shade into the working of magic. This would not merely inform hunters and fishers of the best way to go about their work, but would actively bring them good luck. Before hunts, Evenks held a rite called the shingkelevun, in which a shaman travelled out of his or her body to visist the clan's spirt-mistress of the local taiga and it's animals. He would beg a catch from her, and she usually informed him of the transgressions which the clan had recently made in tirtual observances and the measures which had to be taken to propitiate her in return. She would then gran the souls of a certain number of animals, and he would journey on to a greater being, the mother of the universe, to have those souls released to the hunters.

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Ronald Hutton Shamans Siberian spirituality and the western imagination.

That was the closet.