The _Shintō Miōmoku Ruijiu_ gives the following description of a form of tortoise-shell divination practised at Kashima to select young girls for the service of the God (_mono-imi_). Two candidates who have not reached puberty perform rites to the God for 100 days. On the final day a caldron is set up before the shrine and two tortoise-shells are placed in it, each of which bears the name of one of the girls. These are roasted from early morning till dusk. The tortoise-shell with the name of the successful candidate is then found to be wholly uninjured by the fire whilst the other is reduced to ashes. It is said that the girl selected attains a great age and that she never menstruates. =Tsuji-ura= (cross-roads divination).[308]--This form of divination was much practised in ancient Japan, especially by women and lovers. It consisted in going out to the road at dusk, planting a stick in the ground to represent Kunado, the phallic God of roads, and interpreting the fragmentary talk of passers-by as an answer to the question.[309] Another account says that to perform _tsuji-ura_ you take a box-wood comb in your hand, go to cross-roads and sound it three times by drawing your finger along it (_tsuge_, "box-wood," also means "inform me"). Then, with devotion to the Sahe no Kami, repeat this verse three times: "Oh, thou God of the cross-roads-divination, grant me a true response." Good or bad luck is to be inferred from the words of the next (or the third) person who makes his appearance. Sometimes a boundary line was marked out and rice sprinkled to keep away evil influences. The words of the passer-by who first entered the charmed limit constituted the response. =Hashi-ura= (bridge-divination). Little is known of this kind of divination. The procedure was the same as in _tsuji-ura_, and the Gods concerned were probably the Sahe no Kami. The end-post of a bridge was, and still is, a _wo-bashira_, that is, male pillar or phallus. =Ishi-ura=, or stone-divination, is mentioned in the _Manyōshiu_ along with _tsuji-ura_. The "stone" is probably the stone emblem of Kunado or Sahe no Kami. It consisted in judging of future fortune by the apparent weight of the stone when lifted. Such stones were called _Ishi-gami_ (stone-deities) and were no doubt phallic.