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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A form of divination, originating on the [[Counterweight Continent]], which involves casting yarrow stalks and methodically counting how many fall in a particular orientation, then looking up the correct oracular verse out of eight thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight. (Yes: it's [[7a|that number again]]. A simpler version, though frowned upon by purists and impractical in [[Ankh-Morpork]] where it's difficult (if not impossible) to get the money back afterwards, involves throwing three coins eight times. (hence the name).<br />
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One result, mentioned in {{M}}, is the octogrammatic oracular verse 8,887 ''Illegibility: or The Atoning Goose''. This left the superior person consulting the ChingAling very much none the wiser. <br />
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==Annotation==<br />
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To [[Roundworld]], China, and the '''''I Ching'''''.<br />
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