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"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) (publicdomainreview.org)
shervinafshar 3 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 11 minutes 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 1 hours ago [-]
I wish there were more games based on Persian lore.

Like how Al-Qadim was an Arabian-themed setting for D&D.

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