You almost gave the impression that the Prophet pbuh and sahaba did so .....
......the arabs of the time who hadn't come out of ignorance and superstition did such things - the Prophet pbuh's grandfather was taken to the witch of Arabia or Hijaz in order to interpret the divining arrows for the sacrifice which ended with one hundred camels instead of Abdullah, whereas, if they had followed their just sense of reason and intellect and had accepted the guidance of Allah of the time which had been delivered to Arabia, they would have known that it wasn't necessary and actually haraam to sacrifice a child despite the strong feeling of necessity, and that such a trial and vow had been made in the past and had been replaced with the sacrifice of a ram.
The british and american governments it appears - along with their secularist allies - are still immersed in such superstition to the detriment of themselves and families.
The actual thing you mention (superstition regarding marriage compatibility) was the practice of the british monarchy not long ago:
In 1570 Walsingham was appointed as the new ambassador to France. He proceeded to set up his own network of undercover agents in France, Italy, Spain and the Low Countries. The late Cecil Williamson, who worked for British Intelligence during World War II and later ran a witchcraft museum, told this writer that Walsingham often used witches as spies.
The Mysterious Dr Dee
One of the famous occultists he is known to have recruited was Queen Elizabeth’s court astrologer and the magical architect of the British Empire, the Welsh magician Dr John Dee. Walsingham was involved in the machinations for the proposed marriage of the Duc d’Anjou and Elizabeth. At the spy master’s personal recommendation, the queen dispatched Dee to France with orders to report back on the progress of the marriage negotiations. The magus travelled to the Duchy of Lorraine and drew up the birth charts of both the Duc and his brother, who was also regarded as a possible husband for the English monarch. Dr Dee, probably influenced by Walsingham, diplomatically reported back to London that the stars suggested a political alliance would be far wiser than matrimony and the queen took his advice.
From the same article I linked in the above post
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/artic...e-untold-story
Although God knows what Kurt Hahn, the German spy tasked with keeping abreast of happenings in Britain must've done to manage to be the glue like magnetic teacher of the future consort to the queen of england.....the fruit box bit was a nice touch though - as were the facial and behavioural similarities with the boisterous moses figure in the ten commandments movie..... and the way the court advisers were worried to death about the uncle mountbatten angle......the fact that the queen mother was worried about charles going to hahn's school shows that they probably didn't get the harmony they had hoped for.
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