function sybl() {
document.syl.content.value = "A very popular custom in Germany is 'Bleigiessen', where the shapes of molten lead are used to make predictions about the coming twelve months. The figures that develop are interpreted with phantasy and intuition (see the SpiritProject 'Bleigiessen' section)."}
function syck() {
document.syl.content.value = "Another very popular thing are fortune cookies. A piece of paper with an aphorism is placed inside the cookie before it is being baked (see SpiritProject - Fortune-Cookies, Recipe and explanation)."}
function sytl() {
document.syl.content.value = "Place the amount of plates on the table according to the amout of people. Under every plate has been placed a symbol: e.g. a key - symbol for removal or an own flat, a ring - engagement or marriage, a slice of bread - enough (mental) food, a flower - joy, etc. The symbols can be chosen any way you like. After midnight the participants of the game go around the table and stop at an agreed sign (or with the ringing of the bells at midnight). Now everyone lifts the plate in front of him or her, and sees which symbol they've 'drawn'..."}
function syzt() {
document.syl.content.value = "many symbols are drawn or written on small notes, folded up and put in a bowl or a hat. At midnight everyone draws a note, and can look up what the future might bring..."}
function fr1() {
document.syl.content.value = "A piece of paper is lit at an open fire. If it flies upwards, this is seen as a positive sign. You can also write a wish on the paper, it will come true in this case. If you don't have an open fire, you might as well use an ashtray. If the paper doesn't burn completely, the wish will come true. Otherwise unfortunately not."}
function fr2() {
document.syl.content.value = "Look inside the open fire, and try to see symbols from the shape and the nature of the flames. Are the flames skipping? Or can you make out an animal. You can also use the embers of the fire for this purpose. Or you could just leave everything to your intuition while staring at the fire, as you might reach a kind of meditative calmness, that makes you prone to your subconscious voice. "}
function air1() {
document.syl.content.value = "Another possibility is to write your wish on a piece of paper, and take another sheet with the same size but a different colour. Throw both sheet out of the window or from your balcony. Which sheet has landed first? If it's the one with the written wish, the wish will come true."}
function air2() {
document.syl.content.value = "Write down all possible answers (also the ones you don't like) on notes the same size. Spread them on the table in front of you, lying on their faces, and turn a fan on. The note that is blown off the table first, gives you the right answer."}
function air3() {
document.syl.content.value = "In former times they've also tried to read messages from the way the wind blew over the surface of the water. Also seen as an oracle was the way the wind blew through the trees and the branches, and made bells ring, which were hung up there. Even these days children like to give the shapes of the clouds a meaning, in former times this art of interpretation was left to priests and other experts only."}
function wat1() {
document.syl.content.value = "You can write down all possible answers to a question you have on small notes, screw up each sheet losely and throw these in a bowl with water. Which note will show you the answer first? That is your answer!"}
function wat2() {
document.syl.content.value = "Throw a stone into the water and count the circles, that develop on the surface. An odd number answers your question with No, an even number means Yes. Use a flat stone and let it jump on the surface of the water. Even number - yes, odd number - no."}
function nb1() {
document.syl.content.value = "He (or she) loves me, loves me not, loves me... With every petal you tear out, you come closer to the answer."}
function nb2() {
document.syl.content.value = "The same way you can count this question (or every other question) out at the buttons of your clothes. He (or she) loves me, loves me not, loves me...Or: I do it, I don't do it..."}
function nb3() {
document.syl.content.value = "Count the pips of an apple core assuming again that an even number of pips means Yes, an odd number means No."}
function pt1() {
document.syl.content.value = "To find out the name of your future partner, you can also use an apple - as an age-old symbol for seduction (paradise, Eve, the apple and the snake... Do you remeber?), the apple is particularly popular. Peel it like a spiral, as thin as possible. Throw the peel over your left shoulder, and view how the spiral fell, apparently you can see the first letter of the name of your future partner."}
function pt2() {
document.syl.content.value = "Cut the first letter of your ideal partner (how nice if you are spoilt for choice...) in an onion. Place the onions in a warm spot. The onion that sprouts first, shows you the name of Mr.(or Mrs.) Right..."}
function mz1() {
document.syl.content.value = "Head means Yes, tails means No. Or vice versa, important is that you agree on it first. Throw the coin in the air, and then see on which side it falls. You should also agree upon first if you ask the oracle by throwing it only once or three times."}
function mz2() {
document.syl.content.value = "You can also use this oracle with 3 or 5 coins. Assign a certain order, in which they have to fall down, e.g. head, head, head or tails, tails, tails... Lay down the order and the respective answers first."}
function bk1() {
document.syl.content.value = "If you are looking for a solution for a problem, just open a page in any book, or in a book that is important for you. Close your eyes, and tap on a line on this page. Does what you read match with your problem? Sometimes you have to think about it for a while, and let the words be effective...."}
function vt1() {
document.syl.content.value = "On the night of the 14th of February, place two bay leaves under your pillow. In your dream you will meet your new or matching partner..."}
function hw1() {
document.syl.content.value = "In England they carve signs in white stones at the night before Halloween, and throw them in the fire. The next day you pick your stone from the ashes. If the stone is undamaged, this is interpreted as a good sign for the coming year. Whereas if the stone is cracked or maybe even vanished, this is seen as a bad omen."}
function ws1() {
document.syl.content.value = "In the time of the Roman Empire, it was the job of the augurs, as the priests were called, to look for explanations for the will of the Gods. They 'read' this from signs, which we find rather random today. The trajectory of certain birds - eagles and vultures - was as important as the fact of whether they had lost any feathers, or from which direction they had come. Whereas the voices from crows, ravens, owls an chicken were interpreted, as well as their excrements were used for the indept interpretation of the will of the Gods."}
function ws2() {
document.syl.content.value = "The Arachnomanty describes the fortune-telling by the appearance and behaviour of spiders."}
function ws3() {
document.syl.content.value = "The Entomomanty describes the fortune-telling by the appearance and behaviour of insects."}
function ws4() {
document.syl.content.value = "The Ichthyomanty reads the future by the shape and the intestines of fish."}
function ws5() {
document.syl.content.value = "The Myomanty deals with the colour and the motion of mice, to find some explanation therein."}
function ws6() {
document.syl.content.value = "The Oenomanty was the prediction from spillt vine, that was sacrificed to the Gods."}
function ws7() {
document.syl.content.value = "The Ophiomanty meant the fortune-telling from the colour and the motion of snakes."}
function ws8() {
document.syl.content.value = "The Tephromanty read the future from the patterns of the ashes after burnt offerings for the Gods."}
function ws9() {
document.syl.content.value = "And the Zoomanty foretells from the appereance and behaviour of animals."}
function ws10() {
document.syl.content.value = "Let's leave it open as to whether in former times the just deceased were revived, and forced to make a statement about the future, as some books say. In any case this is not the way necromancy is used today. Whoever works on this kind of prediction of the future, tries to get in contact with the dead by means of a séance. A medium, who is in trance, is told the answers, that are asked by the persons present. Other spiritists try it with a so-called Ouija-Board, a board with letters, on which a pendulum or a pen glides from to letter to letter, and so words result. The automatic writing is also part of this kind of prediction. You set yourself in a trance-like state and wait that the hand that holds a pen writes down words 'by itself', that were practically received by the sub-conscious. The moving of tables or glasses belongs to the same category. It is always the dead, that are 'called'.\n\nSuch practices should be left up to professionals. Never, under any circumstances should one try to try to perform  them as a lay man. Untrained and sensitive natures might be harmed, because it might be difficult for them to distinguish between their perceptions, the reality and illusions."}
function ws11() {
document.syl.content.value = "However the examination of the intestines was mostly practiced by the Assyrians, Babylonians and Etruscans, and not that much by the Augurs. Every convolution of the intestine was supposed to have a certain meaning. The fortune-telling from the liver was also a highly esteemed art. Clay and bronze models of such liver illustrations have been found at excavations, that reach back to the year 2000 B.C."}
function ck() {
document.syl.content.value = "Ask the Oracle\n\nOn New Year's Eve everyone likes to take a look at the future. Our suggestion for 'Bleigiessen' is one way, and here is another.\n\n Oracle-Cookies\nThe American fortune-cookies have been very popular since many years. No one really takes these aphorisms seriously, but they never remain unread. Apparently their origin goes back to the aristocratic society of the old China, but the Americans also claim the right of their invention. These epigrams reach from rather trite statements to mystical-miraculous prophecies. It's left to your phantasy, what epigrams you chose. You can also get some suggestions from our section about 'Bleigiessen'. Write or draw a symbol on small strips of paper, make up some epigrams, that match your guests...\n\nAnd here is the recipe:\n\n2 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla or 1/2 tsp. almond flavor, 1/4 cup oil, 1/2 cup cornstarch, 1/4 cup of water\n\nStir the eggs with a mixer, add sugar and stir at the highest level until the mixture is frothy and smooth. Add the flavor and fold in the oil. In a bowl mix together the water with a part of the egg mixture till it's smooth, then add the rest of the egg mix. Lightly grease skillet or griddle with cooking oil. For each cookie pour 1 tbs. of batter in the skillet or griddle and spread to an 4-inch (10 cm) circle. Preheat the oven and cook over medium heat about 2 1/2 minutes from each side. Turn them as soon as the edges turn brown. Take the cookies off the griddle one by one. Working quickly while the cookie is still soft, put a fortune in the middle and fold the cookie in half, and press the even sides together.\n\nAnother possibility to surprise your guests by giving them a symbol for this special evening is, to make donuts filled with small objects. In addition to the dough you need small presents, e.g. little plastic animals, that symbolize a strength or quality (eagle, lion, pig, unicorn etc.), glass beads or fortune stones, lucky pennies etc. Look for other suggestions in toy shops and use your imagination. The small objects are wrapped in aluminium foil and baked with the donuts.\n\nHere is the recipe:\n\n500 g(1.1 lb)flour, 15 g(1/2 ounce) fresh or dry yeast. 1/4 l(1/2 pint) milk, 20 g(3/4 ounce) sugar, 1 pinch of salt, 1 egg yolk, 1 egg, 50 g(1 3/4 ounce)butter or margarine, icing\n\nMake a depression in the flour, sprinkle the sugar around the edge, crumble the yeast in the centre, and mix a dough with lukewarm milk to begin with. Sprinkle some flour over it, cover it with a cloth, put it in a warm place and let the dough rise. The dough has to look porous and should have doubled in bulk, this takes 10-20 min. according to warmth. Add the other ingredients afterwards, the butter or margarine should be soft, but not molten.  Mix the dough well, unless it's shiny and comes off easily. Shape little balls in which you place the symbols wrapped in tin foil. Let the dough balls sit for another 30 min. (covered with the cloth). Deep-fry them in a pan or a deep fryer, till they are golden-brown. Lift them out of the fryer, and let them drip on a paper towel, and sprinkle icing on top. At midnight every guests takes one or more donuts. The symbols can be interpreted according to the phantasy of your guests, or maybe to our suggestions."}