 To this, the communities agreed to consult an oracle to settle the boundary dispute.The night before the oracle was to be consulted, the Calaporkas dug a hole on the border and lowered a wooden coffin containing one of their men, "the patriotic Calaporkar", who could breathe through a tube, and then covered the hole.So on the next day, when the time of decision arrived, both village leaders implored the oracle to answer their prayer.