La Charada China-Cubana, Numbers and Meanings.

The "Charada China Cubana" is a traditional "dream interpretation" number system used in Pre-Castro Cuba. If you had a dream with a specific thing, you would play the number in the Lottery, in whatever combination you think it will come out in (example > if you had a dream with a Horse and a Rooster, you would play 111 or a religious woman and money, you would play 521).  Here is a complete list of "La Charada China Cubana" Numbers and their Meanings, as used in Pre-Castro Cuba and in the Cuban Exile Communities around the world.

1 - Horse
2 - Butterfly or Money
3 - Sailor or Small child
4 - Cat or Tooth or Saint Barbara
5 - Nun or Sea
6 - Turtle
7 - Snail
8 - Dead Man or Virgen of Charity (Virgen de la Caridad)
9 - Elephant or Tongue
10 - Big Fish
11 - Rooster
12 - Prostitute or Whore
13 - Peacock
14 - Cemetery or Tiger
15 - Dog or Pretty girl
16 - Bull
17 - St. Lazarus or the Moon
18 - Small Fish
19 - Worm or Flag
20 - Pure Breed Cat
21 - Snake or Money
22 - Toad
23 - Steam
24 - Dove or St. Christopher
25 -  Gem or New House
26 - Eel or Young Doctor
27 - Wasp
28 - Goat
29 - Mouse
30 - Shrimp
31 - Deer
32 - Hog
33 - Buzzard or Jesus Christ
34 - Monkey
35 - Spider
36 - Pipe
37 - Witch, Black Hen, or Financially Broke
38 - Macaw or Money
39 - Rabbit
40 - Priest or Blood
41 - Lizard
42 - Duck or a Distant Place or Country
43 - Scorpion
44 - Year of the Crow or a Crow
45 - Shark or President
46 - Bus or Smoke
47 - Bird
48 - Roach
49 - Drunk or Alcoholic
50 - Police Officer or Law Enforcement Officer
51 - Soldier
52 - Bicycle
53 - Electric Light
54 - Flowers
55 - Crab or Bat
56 - Meringue or Queen
57 - Bed or Telegram / Electronic Communication or Mail
58 - Photo or Knife
59 - Crazy Man or Crazy
60 - Clown
61 - Big Horse
62 - Married Couple
63 - Assassin
64 - Large Dead Man or Dead Man
65 - Food
66 - Animal Horn
67 -Stab Wound
68 - Cemetery
69 - Wall
70 - Coconut
71 - River
72 - Ox
73 - Suitcase
74 - Kite
75 - Tie
76 - Dancer
77 - Italian Flag or Flag
78 - Coffin
79 - Cargo Train
80 - Old Doctor
81 - Theater
82 - Mother
83 - Tragedy
84 - Blood or Banker
85 - Mirror or Watch
86 - Scissors
87 - Banana
88 - Glasses
89 - Alot of Water
90 - Old Man
91 - Sandal or Communist
92 - Large Pig or Airplane
93 - Ring
94 - Machete or Havana
95 - War
96 - Shoe or Old Prostitute / Whore
97 - Mosquito
98 - Piano
99 - Saw
100 - Toilet

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