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a particular form of divination which used the inner bark of the linden tree, unlike the methods of traditional Scythian soothsayers which used willow withies. The Enarei divined by cutting the inner linden bark into three pieces, and plaiting and unplaiting these pieces around their fingers to obtain answers. For Scythians in Russia, linden then became a symbol for the third gender, or for people who are feminine-presenting

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