World Weavers' Championship

I spent most of my time yesterday cudgeling my brains trying to work around those last two prompts. Unfortunately both are so alien to my world that I can do nothing with them unless I were to rewrite the entire history, nature and society. And if I did that, it wouldn't be my world anymore

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One day they love us because we're unique. The next we're in jail because we're different.

For generations we've used the oracular reading of oxen guts to predict our students' careers, or lack thereof.
Ew. Couldn't you use some sort of aptitude test instead?
We tried that. The oxen guts were more accurate by 72%.

Zlang-Zlang Squid Says: People who are offended by Dumbo really need real problems in their lives to worry about.