Different kinds of divination, which have passed for sciences, we have had: […] 6. Haruspicy, by inspecting the bowels of animals. […]

The refugees were well integrated into the community.

Their physical yearning for each other was nearly as great as their union of poetry, but it was inhibited by a geasa, or taboo, that had been inflicted on Curither by an elderly aesodan, his poetic mentor during the long years of ...

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by dirty words. It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.