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

> 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.

I wish there were more games based on Persian lore.

Like how Al-Qadim was an Arabian-themed setting for D&D.

Just another reminder of the absolutely massive public benefit that the Internet Archive represents.

Just wish they'd make the metadata crowd-sourced, maybe a tie-up with Wikidata.