The games were partly, sometimes wholly, diversional, but generally they were in large part divinatory, and thus reflected the hazardous occupations and low culture-status of the people.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
So the sports of the Siouan Indians were both diversional and divinatory, and the latter were highly organized in a manner reflecting the environment of the tribes, their culture-status, their belief, and especially their disposition toward bloodshed; for their most characteristic ceremonials were connected, genetically if not immediately, with warfare and the chase.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
Yes, affliction is like the divinatory wand, whose touch discovers deep-buried springs the existence of which was previously unknown.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner