palm-nuts

Each one of the 256 odu has its specific divination signature, which is determined through a procedure held by the babalawo using sacred palm-nuts and a divination chain.

Ifa Divination Proclaimed 'Masterpiece' By UNESCO Christopher 2008

Each one of the 256 odu has its specific divination signature, which is determined through a procedure held by the babalawo using sacred palm-nuts and a divination chain.

Archive 2008-01-01 Christopher 2008

At Abeokuta in Yoruba a man will send a symbolical letter in the shape of cowries, palm-nuts and other kernels strung on rice — straw, and sharp wits readily interpret the meaning.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

That intercourse is always said to have been cut off by some human error; for example, the Fernando Po people say that once upon a time there was no trouble or serious disturbance upon earth because there was a ladder, made like the one you get palm-nuts with, “only long, long;” and this ladder reached from earth to heaven so the gods could go up and down it and attend personally to mundane affairs.

Travels in West Africa 2003

It is made black by passing it through the smoke of burning palm-nuts.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

Elephants live on grass, hay, palm-nuts and things that grow.

Nero, the Circus Lion His Many Adventures Richard Barnum

The stomach of the one I shot contained big palm-nuts; they had been swallowed without enough mastication to break the kernel, the outer pulp being what the tapir prized.

V. Up the River of Tapirs 1914

The smoke of the palm-nuts is a chemical agent that converts the juice into the crude rubber of commerce.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

The big bags carried by the former contain almost exclusively palm-nuts for the dye houses of Aleppo, and cotton.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

The stomach of the one I shot contained big palm-nuts; they had been swallowed without enough mastication to break the kernel, the outer pulp being what the tapir prized.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888