"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) (publicdomainreview.org)
40 points by Thevet 3 days ago
shervinafshar 4 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.
sfRattan an hour ago
The use of "bug" for engineering defect (a use that predates software by around a century) shares Middle English etymology with bugbear and bugaboo, both of which relate to evil spirits/creatures and annoyances. Khrafstar is not unreasonable as a translation.
Razengan 2 hours ago
I wish there were more games based on Persian lore.
Like how Al-Qadim was an Arabian-themed setting for D&D.
pazimzadeh 30 minutes ago
Or just more movies about the Persians, where they’re not evil etc..