Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Margaritomancy is divination with pearls , usually by either casting pearls or studying pearls in oysters. The word is derived from the Latin margarita , meaning pearl . One ancient use of margaritomancy involved throwing a pearl into a cast iron pot that was sitting in a fire and watching it to determine a person s guilt or innocence in a crime. If the pearl started moving then the person was believed to be guilty. If it stayed in place they were not guilty. Category DivinationDivination Occult stub ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2008 Onomancy haplological for Onomamancy or Onomatomancy is divination based on a subject s given name , popular in the Late Middle Ages , usually following practices of Gematria . See also Onomastics Arithmomancy Category Numerology Category Divination Category Given names Onomancy occult stub de Onomantie it Onomanzia ... more details
Casting lots may refer to Sortition , the casting or drawing of lots to make a fair form of selection Cleromancy , the casting or drawing of lots as a form of divination disambig ... more details
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Refimprove date December 2009 Portal Occult Crithomancy also known as Critomancy is a form of divination by the study of barley cake s ref name isbn9781405131124 cite book author Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio and Beyerstein title 50 great myths of popular psychology publisher Wiley Blackwell location Chichester year 2010 pages 332 isbn 9781405131124 oclc doi accessdate ref in hope of drawing omens from them. The paste of cakes which are offered in sacrifice is closely examined, and the sought for answers are drawn from the flour which is spread upon them. The term crithomancy is also used for divination by cereal cereal grain s. Reflist Divination Category Divination Occult stub el ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 Carromancy from Greek language Greek carro , waxen , and manteia , divination , otherwise known as ceromancy, is a form of divination involving wax . One of the most common methods of carromancy is to heat wax until molten, then to pour it directly into cold water. The shapes and movements of the wax as it cools and solidifies can then allegedly be read to forecast auguries of the future . Another method more commonly practiced in the contemporary era is studying the burning of an ordinary candle. The movements and erratic actions of the flame are then said to predict the future. Carromancy also has roots in ancient Celtic polytheism Celtic times. According to scraps of knowledge salvaged from around the period CE 500, it appears that the candle burned during a druid s vigil was poured into a bowl and then into a clear pool of cold water. The auguries for the future could then be read. Divination Category Divination ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 File Ants eating.jpg thumb The eating behavior of ants as a sign of what is to be wiktionary myrmomancy Myrmomancy from Greek myrmex ant and manteia prophecy is the practice of reading omen s from the observed behavior of ant s, especially from their eating behavior. It is a form of entomomancy from Greek entomon insect , which is itself Methods of divination T theriomantic from Greek therion wild beast also known as zoomancy . People who use this divination technique subscribe to the worldview that the movements of ants are, in some supernatural way, ultimately connected with their life and that an understanding of these movements enables one to learn about the future. The interpretation of ant behavior may vary cross culturally. External links http www.occultopedia.com m myrmomancy.htm Occultopedia.com Myrmomancy alternatively Myrmomantia Category Ants Category Divination Occult stub Divination ... more details
Refimprove date May 2011 Pyromancy from Greek language Greek pyros, fire, and manteia, divination is the art of divination by means of fire . History of pyromancy Due to the importance of fire in society from the earliest of times, it is quite likely that pyromancy was one of the earlier forms of divination. It is said that in Ancient Greece Greek society, virgin s at the Parthenon Temple of Athena in Athens , regularly practiced pyromancy. It is also possible that followers of Hephaestus , the Greek god of fire and the forge , practiced pyromancy. In ancient China , pyromancy was practiced in the Neolithic period and Shang Dynasty Shang and Zhou Dynasty Zhou dynasties in the form of burning or heating oracle bone s usually the scapula e shoulder blades of ox en or turtle shells to produce cracks which were then read as portents. Inscriptions on such oracle bones dating from the late Shang Dynasty are the earliest significant archeological remains of written Chinese found. In Renaissance ... variations on pyromancy, however, some of which are as follows Alomancy , divination by salt, one type of which involves casting salt into a fire Botanomancy , divination by burning plants Capnomancy , divination by smoke light, thin smoke that rose straight up was a good omen otherwise, a bad one. Causinomancy, divination by burning non specific as to the object burned Daphnomancy also, Empyromancy , divination by burning laurel leaves Osteomancy, divination using bones, one type of which involves heating to produce cracks Plastromancy , divination using turtle plastron s in China, this was done by heating pits carved into them. Scapulimancy , divination by scapulae in Asia and North America, this was done pyromantically. Sideromancy, divination by burning straw with an Ironing ... , which is usually used for combat, not divination. Computer games such as Guild Wars , Heroes ... p pyromancy.htm Pyromancy Divination Category Divination Category Greek loanwords et P romantia ... more details
Extispicy from Latin extispicium is the practice of using anomalies in animal entrails to predict or divine future events. ref name Divination text cite book editor1 first John editor1 last Matthews title The World Atlas of Divination format print year 1994 publisher Headline ref Organ anatomy Organ s inspected include the liver , intestine s, and lung s. The animal used for extispicy must often be ritual ly pure and Ritual slaughter slaughtered in a special ceremony . Citation needed date April 2010 The practice was first common in ancient Mesopotamian , Hittites Hittite ref Bryce, Trevor. Life and Society in the Hittite World. Oxford University Press 2002, p. 152 153. ref and Canaan ite temple s. Citation needed date August 2009 Later, Fortune telling soothsayers from Ancient Roman times used the entrails of a bull to determine the advisability of a particular endeavor and Etruscans used patterns seen in the livers of sheep to assess their future. There exists substantial evidence to indicate that this was the main form of divination within classical cultures. ref name Divination text Organ models and extispicy manuals in cuneiform script are widely found in archaeological Excavation archaeology excavations in the regions, showing the prevalence and significance of extispicy. Commonly, in antiquity the majority of the divination was wrought from viewing the intestines and the liver. ref name Divination text Legitimate value Although extispicy would commonly be viewed with skepticism by the modern mind, some 20th century scholars suggested that this technique was also a valuable and legitimate form of, essentially, autopsy , which might indicate internal disease tied to poor environmental factors, ref name Divination text information that would be important to nomadic peoples. See also Haruspex Anthropomancy References reflist Etruscans Category Etruscans Category Divination pt Extisp cio ... more details
File Odu Irosun, Merindilongun.JPG thumb 200px right A throw of merindinlogun , resulting in four open shells od irosun . Merindinlogun from the Yoruba language Yoruba m rind nl g n 16 number sixteen , literally four taken from twenty is a cowrie shell divination method practiced in the Yoruba religion , and of several Afro American religion s derived from it, that uses sixteen cowrie shell s. The number sixteen holds important significance in Yoruba mythology as it was the purported number of original divinities that established life on earth. In merindinlogun divination, the shells are thrown and the number of shells that fall with the opening facing up is associated with a certain odu for example, five shells up represent Oshe , while eight shells up represent Ogbe . This system of divination is used when consulting the Orisha s, as opposed to the ikin or opele which are only used to consult If . References cite book author Awo F l kun Fatunmbi Fatunmbi, Awo F l kun year 2011 title M r nd nl g n r s Divination Using 16 Cowries Revised and Extended Edition publisher Ile Osomi na Books isbn 1463667507 cite book author Awo F l kun Fatunmbi Fatunmbi, Awo F l kun year 1992 title Awo Ifa & the Theology of Orisha Divination publisher Original Publications location New York isbn 0942272242 cite book author Roy Clive Abraham Abraham, Roy Clive year 1958 title Dictionary of Modern Yoruba publisher University of London Press location London cite book author William Bascom Bascom, William year 1993 title Sixteen Cowries Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World publisher Indiana University Press isbn 0253208475 Divination nc lang stub Category Yoruba mythology Category Yoruba words and phrases Category Divination pt Merindilogun ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Papyromancy is a way of divination through folding paper ref http skepdic.com papyromancy.html Papyromancy Retrieved February 3, 2007. ref . Examples of these include an urban legend where a specifically folded 20 American bill will reveal the September 11, 2001 attacks . References references External links http snopes.com rumors 20bill.htm An example of papyromancy with a 20 bill Category Divination Category Paranormal terminology para psych stub ... more details
Interpretation of dreams may refer to Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams Oneiromancy , a form of divination based upon dreams The Interpretation of Dreams , Sigmund Freud s 1899 book about psychoanalysis and dreams disambig ... more details
Portal Occult Gyromancy is a method of divination in which a person spins around inside or walks the circumference of a circle drawn on the ground, the perimeter of which is marked with the letters of an alphabet. The divination is inferred from the letter at the position where the person either stumbles or falls across the circle s edge. The person would repeat the practice ...till he evolved an intelligible sentence, or till death or madness intervened. ref name isbn1 56459 369 X cite book author Waite, Arthur Edward title Occult Sciences A Compendium of Transcendental Doctrine and Experiment publisher Kessinger Publishing location year pages isbn 1 56459 369 X oclc doi accessdate 2007 07 01 ref The dizziness brought on by spinning or circling is intended to introduce randomness or to facilitate an altered state of consciousness . ref http www.themystica.com mystica articles g gyromancy.html Mystica Encyclopedia ref The word is derived from Medieval Latin , gyromantia , which is derived from Greek gyros circle and manteia oracle . ref http www.etymonline.com index.php?term gyromancy Online Etymology Dictionary ref References Reflist Divination Category Divination Occult stub fr Gyromancie it Giromanzia ... more details
Refimprove date April 2008 Chronomancy is divination of the best time to do something, the determination of lucky and unlucky days, especially popular in ancient China . Citation needed date August 2007 The term chronomancy , stemming from the Greek word chronos meaning time , and the word manteia meaning divination is also used in fiction to refer to a school of Magic paranormal magic involving supernatural manipulation of time . Time manipulation The best known historical figure that has been attributed the power of chronomancy is the Count of St. Germain , the eighteenth century philosopher , Alchemy alchemist , and spiritualist . He has been believed to transcend time by reincarnation and eternal youth . Citation needed date August 2007 References reflist Divination Category Divination Category Chinese mythology China myth stub europe myth stub fantasy stub it Emerologia mk ... more details
Favomancy is a form of divination that used to be practised by seers in Russia , in particular, among the Ubykh people Ubykh . The practice involves throwing beans on the ground and interpreting the patterns in which the beans fall it is therefore a type of cleromancy . Russian methods of favomancy may still exist however, since the departure of the Ubykhs from the Caucasus in 1864, details of exactly how Ubykh soothsayers interpreted the patterns formed by the beans are lost. Etymology Favomancy comes from the Latin faba bean and formed by analogy with the names of similar divination methods such as alectromancy . The Ubykh language Ubykh term for a favomancer simply means bean thrower , and later became a synonym for all Fortune telling soothsayer s and seers in general. References Vogt, H. 1963 Dictionnaire de la langue oubykh . Universitetsforlaget Oslo. Tsapina, O. 2002 Something Old, Something New Continuity and Modernization in Eighteenth Century Russia. Available from http muse.jhu.edu journals eighteenth century studies v035 35.2tsapina.html jhu . br Divination Category Divination occult stub ... more details
Jaam e Jam may refer to Jaam e Jam mythology or the Cup of Jamshid, a cup of divination in Persian mythology Jaam e Jam television , an American based Persian TV station Jaam e Jam newspaper , an Iraniian newspaper disambig ... more details
Jiaoshi Yilin zh c pinyin Ji osh Y l n l Forest of Changes by Jiao is a Chinese language Chinese book of I Ching divination divination composed during the Western Han Dynasty . Modeled on the I Ching , the work was attributed to Jiao Yanshou , though not much is known about the author. The work was one of the few surviving books of divination produced in that period of Chinese history. It contains 64 x 64 4096 Hexagram I Ching hexagram s I Ching contains 64 each of the hexagram is commented by a short poem 3 8 lines each line comprises, in most cases, 4 Chinese character character s . Besides its historical value, the work has also been treasured for its literary merit. External links http www.chineseclassic.com 13jing yi giau index.htm Original Chinese text , which, however, requires proofreading and revision. Category Chinese books of divination fi Jiaoshi yilin zh ... more details
Alphitomancy from Greek language Greek alphiton , barley , and manteia , divination is a form of divination involving barley cakes or loaves of barley bread. ref Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, reissued 2006 , p. 495. ref When someone in a group was suspected of a crime , the members of the group would be fed barley cakes or slices of barley bread . Supposedly, the guilty party would get indigestion , while all others would feel well. citation needed date November 2010 See also Portal Occult corsned Alphito References Reflist Category Divination Category Breads Occult stub it Alfitomanzia ... more details
Oinomancy or oenomancy or nomancy is a form of divination conducted by examining patterns in wine . An ancient technique, oinomancy was performed by a priestess known as a Maenad Bacchante , and protected by Dionysus Bacchus , the Roman mythology Roman god of wine. Oinomancy is still practiced today, but is rare in the United States. Oinomancy could be performed in a number of ways Wine is spilled on cloth or paper , and the resulting stains are studied. Cloth or paper is soaked or boiled in wine, and the resulting appearance of the material is studied. The appearance of wine being poured as an offering during a libation is studied. The sediment in the bottom of a glass or bottle of wine is studied. The physical features color, taste, etc. of wine are studied. References Cunningham, Scott. Divination for Beginners . Llewellyn Worldwide, 2003. ISBN 0 7387 0384 2 External links http www.occultopedia.com o oenomancy.htm Oenomancy at Occultipedia Category Divination Occult stub it Enomanzia ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Image Fingernails2.jpg thumb Onychomancy fingernails analysis Onychomancy or variously onuchomancy , onychomantia , onycomancy , onymancy from Greek language Greek onychos , fingernail , and manteia , fortune telling is an ancient form of divination using fingernails. It consists of watching the reflection of sunlight on the oiled fingernails of an unpolluted boy, then interpreting the symbols that appear. The fingers where symbols appear allegedly indicate the nature of the coming events, while the location of the symbols on the nail allow to date them. The higher the symbol is situated on the nail, the nearer the events are in the future. The term is also used for a method of chiromancy , consisting of reading health & character from fingernails. Divination Category Divination ... more details
Infobox paranormal term Image Name Image Caption Usage Terminology Name Cyclomancy Origin Short Additional Names Definition Use of a spun object for divination Characteristics Resting direction of spun object indicates what to consult Extra Title Extra Column See Also Divination Cyclomancy is a form of divination based on spinning an object and deriving predictions or conclusions from the object s final resting direction. In some traditions, a wheel or top is spun on a surface marked with letters or symbols, and those that fall closest to the device s pointer are consulted. ref name evdef Boehm, Roger 2006 Evil Defined From a Christian Perspective , Lulu Press, Inc. ISBN 0615134890 ref ref name esent1 Tuitean, Paul , Daniels Estelle 2001 Essential Wicca , The Crossing Press, ISBN 1580910998 ref In other traditions, any suitable object may be spun and its direction may be used to obtain a simple yes no answer or directional indicator. For example an object with a distinguishing feature may be spun between two diverging paths or disparate objects, and the one closest to the feature is chosen. The party game Spin the Bottle is loosely based on this concept. Cyclomancy is sometimes used in Dowsing . References References Divination Category Divination Category Paranormal terminology para psych stub ... more details
File Mj l.jpg thumb Unsifted wheat flour Portal Occult Aleuromancy is the use of flour for divination . ref name words cite news author STANLEY M. ARONSON title COMMENTARY Navigating the sea of words quote publisher Providence Journal Bulletin date January 8, 2001 url accessdate January 26, 2011 ref The word comes from the Greek language Greek aleuron, meaning flour, and manteia, meaning divination. ref name words In its original form, slips of paper containing philosophical writings would be baked inside of cakes or cookies, which would then be distributed to those wishing their fortunes to be told. Similarly, the Greeks would bake slips of paper with sentences on them inside of balls of flour, mix the balls nine times, and distribute them. ref name book Cite encyclopedia title Aleuromancy encyclopedia The Element Encyclopedia of the Psychic World volume pages 17 publisher Harper Element year 2006 id accessdate January 26, 2011 ref Modern fortune cookie s are a variant on these forms of divination. ref name book Another form of aleuromancy consisted of interpreting patterns of flour left in a bowl in which a flour and water slurry had been mixed and poured out from. Divination with flour is attested in cuneiform sources from the 2nd millennium BCE. ref cite journal title Mesopotamian Astral Divination author David Brown journal East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine volume 25 year 2006 page 200 ref Flour was poured out in small heaps and the interpretation was based on the observation of their shapes and orientation. References reflist Divination Category Divination occult stub ca Aleurom ncia el it Aleuromanzia uk ... more details
Libanomancy also known as livanomancy and knissomancy is a divination primarily through observing and interpreting burning incense smoke , but which may include the way incense ash falls as well. ref Martin Delrio Del Rio, Mart n Anton . http books.google.com books?id I2iCYDHYbycC&lpg PA160&dq tephramancy&pg PA160 v onepage&q tephramancy&f false Investigations Into Magic. P.G. Maxwell Stuart, trans. Reprint ed. Manchester, U.K. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 160. ref Like most other methods of divination, during libanomancy a specific question must be asked. The incense smoke provides an answer, but the smoke must be interpreted by a diviner. History of libanomancy The libanomic manuals come from the Old Babylonian period roughly dated 2,000 1,600 B.C. ref name Dunwich Dunwich, Gerina. Candlelight Spells The Modern Witch s Book of Spellcasting, Feasting, and Healing. Secaucus, N.J. Citadel Press, 1988, p. 51. ref Obviously popular at that time, this method of divination began to decline later, but the knowledge was preserved by trained diviners. From Mesopotamia , libanomancy traveled to Egypt and later became known in Europe . Interpretation Libanomic texts mention the possible interpretation of some of the signs. For instance, the Three Collated Libanomancy Texts say that if incense is sprinkled over an open flame and the smoke drifts to the right, you will defeat your enemy. ref name Dunwich If the smoke clusters, it means financial success. ref name Dunwich Rising smoke that forms two columns means the loss of one s sanity. ref name Dunwich See also Divination Methods of divination Footnotes reflist Divination Category Divination es Libanomancia ... more details
Aichmomancy from Greek aikhm , spearhead and manteia, prophecy is a form of divination somewhat similar to Acultomancy in that it uses sharp pointed objects to show patterns to read. br br Aichmomancy readers use pins, knives, forks, nails, and handmade pieces of wood sharpened to a point. Readers drop sharp pointed objects onto a flat surface, find patterns and interpret them. br br Image with unknown copyright status removed Image aichmomancy with pins.jpg thumb Basic patterns and their interpretation In the most ancient form of this divination a spearhead was spun in the sand. Several centuries later, during the Early Middle Ages , divinations with pins became popular in Europe . Readers used seven pins and a table covered with cloth. Pins were thrown over the table, and the patterns were read and interpreted. br br The basic patterns and their interpretations br br class wikitable 1 Love br 5 Danger br 9 Honesty br 13 Sickness br 17 Pleasure br 21 Break up br 2 Money br 6 Quarrel br 10 Rudeness br 14 Wedding br 18 Encounter br 22 Health br 3 Gift br 7 Prison br 11 Joy br 15 Birth br 19 Meeting br 23 Vanity br 4 Grief br 8 Engagement br 12 Letter br 16 Resistance br 20 Success br 24 Road br br br See also Divination Methods of divination br br References http dewarlorx.com divination.htm Divination Glossary http divinations.astrostar.ru Divinations Online http ezo.sestrenka.ru Esoterics and Parapsychology http www.syl.com articles aichmomancy.html Aichmomancy Divination Category Divination Occult stub ... more details
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