CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 



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One name is selected avS the winning one before each drawing, and 

 the players who guess it receive thirty times the amount of their bet. 

 Below each of the proper names on the chart are the names of vari- 

 ous animals, common occupations, of noted characters in the popular 

 romances and histories, and of miscellaneous objects, such as "jade," 

 "a corpse," and the "Tutelary Spirit." This heterogeneous collection, 

 wliich somewhat resembles the list of objects in the dream books sold 

 in our shops for the use of "policy" players, 

 is employed by gamblers for a similar pur- 

 pose. The picture of a man, marked with 

 thirty-six names at various parts of his 

 body, forms part of the same scheme. This 

 employment is secondary to another pur- 

 pose. Before drawing the lottery, the man- 

 ager distributes among the players copies 

 of an enigma (fig. 215), which must contain 

 some demonstrable reference to the name 

 written under the proper name selected for 

 the day, or to the part of the body upon 

 which that name is written. These enig- 

 mas are written in metrical form, and are 

 composed as required by the writer of the 

 lottery. He endeavors to mislead the play- 

 ers, but is obliged to give a satisfactory 

 explanation of the connection between his 

 verses and the name displayed.' 



For an explanation of the symbolism of the 

 thirty six names and of the T^ung yan, or 

 "composite man," as the picture of the man 

 is called, we need but to refer to the concept 

 of totality which underlies the arrow-(j[uiver 

 with its symbols of all the quarters. 



74. Numbered balls,' used in lottery. 



Madrid, Spain. 

 These balls (fig. 216) made of boxwood, 

 are numbered from one to ninety. Their probable origin is suggested 

 by the Korean san-htong, as described on page 902. The resemblance 

 of these strung balls to a rosary has suggested to the writer that 

 that object may have had a similar origin and cosmical symbolism. 



75. Arrows.* McCloud River Indians, McCloud Eiver, California. 

 Feathered ends marked with rings or ribbons of red, blue, and black 



paint. 



Fig. 215. 



ENIGMA {tsz' fa t'ai) USED IN WORD. 

 BLOSSOMING LOTTERY. 



Chinese in United States. 



From Korean Games. 



■ For a detailed account see Stewart Culin, Tss' Fa, or Word-Blossoming, Overland 

 Monthly, September, 1894. 



2 Cat. No. 16247, Mas. Arch., Univ. Peuu, 

 » Cat. No. 126518, U.S.N.M. 



