"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

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shervinafshar•about 2 hours ago

> How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune?

For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.