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
Onesource date March 2009 nofootnotes date April 2009 ethnic group group Ubykh poptime popplace Turkey rels Sunni Islam langs Turkish language Turkish , Hakuchi Adyghe related other Circassians Circassian peoples The Ubykh are a group who spoke the Northwest Caucasian languages Northwest Caucasian Ubykh language , until other local languages displaced it and its last speaker died in 1992. The Ubykh used to inhabit an area just northwest of Abkhazia in the Caucasus . They may well have been inhabitants of the ancient state of Colchis . Outside of mythology, the probable ancestors of the Ubykh were mentioned in book IV of Procopius De Bello Gothico The Gothic War , under the name Bruchi , a corruption of the native term t a . The Ubykh were semi nomad ic horsemen, and their language contained a finely differentiated vocabulary related to horses and tack. Some Ubykh also practised favomancy and scapulomancy . However, the Ubykh gained more prominence in modern times. By 1864, during the reign of Tsar Alexander II of Russia Alexander II , the Russian conquest of the Northwestern Caucasus had been completed. The Adyghe people Adyghe and Abkhaz people Abkhaz were decimated, and the Abazins Abaza were partially driven out of the Caucasus. Faced with the threat of subjugation by the Russian army, the Ubykh, as well as Muhajir Caucasus other Muslim peoples of Caucasus , left their homeland en masse beginning on March 6, 1864. By May 21, the entire Ubykh nation had departed from the Caucasus. They eventually settled in a number of villages in western Turkey around the municipality of Manyas . In order to avoid discrimination, the Ubykh Elder administrative title elder s encouraged their people to assimilate into Turkish culture. Having abandoned their traditional nomadic culture, they became a nation of farmers. The Ubykh language was rapidly displaced by Turkish language Turkish and Adyghe language Circassian the last native speaker of Ubykh, Tevfik Esen , died in ... more details
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