He tried to pass off the imitation Rolex as genuine.

This is an extremely simple form of sortilege related to astragalomancy or astragyromancy (from the Greek astragalos, meaning vertebra, knucklebone), which began about 5,000 years ago.

We’re living in squalor That’s the name of this house This house is called squalor by all There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.

From one house they went to another, from that to another, until not one of the Christian[s]' houses was left standing. Everything was deliberately taken outside and bonfired; where the house adjoined others it was destroyed, where it stood alone it was given over to the devouring element.