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Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40 feet (12 m) apart.
Horseshoe: English, Poles and several other European ethnicities, Indian and Nepali people. Horseshoes are considered to ward off saturn’s ill-effects in Vedic culture. Some believe that upward-facing horseshoes catch luck, while others argue that downward-facing ones allow good fortune to flow onto those passing beneath.
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Horseshoes are commonly made of steel, and are nailed to the underside of the hoof. A variety of horseshoes, including aluminum racing plates (light or dark); there is also a variety of oxshoes at the lower right. A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail. [ citation needed ] " For want of a nail " is a proverb , having numerous variations over several centuries, reminding that seemingly unimportant acts or omissions can have grave and unforeseen consequences .
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A horseshoe wind chime, used as a good luck charm. Iron has a long and varied tradition in the mythology and folklore of the world.. While iron is now the name of a chemical element, the traditional meaning of the word "iron" is what is now called wrought iron.
Deck quoits is a variant which is popular on cruise ships. The quoits are invariably made of rope, so as to avoid damaging the ship's deck, but there are no universally agreed standards or rules - partly because of the game's informal nature and partly because the game has to adapt to the shape and area of each particular ship it is played upon.