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href="/wiki/Pawang" title="Pawang">Pawang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slametan" title="Slametan">Slametan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wu_(shaman)" title="Wu (shaman)">Wu</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Revitalization movements</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cargo_cult" title="Cargo cult">Cargo cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_Dance" title="Ghost Dance">Ghost Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handsome_Lake" title="Handsome Lake">Handsome Lake</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Related articles</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content nowraplinks hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Elementary_Forms_of_the_Religious_Life" title="The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life">The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purity_and_Danger" title="Purity and 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Ahmed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talal_Asad" title="Talal Asad">Talal Asad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Campbell" title="Joseph Campbell">Joseph Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Douglas" title="Mary Douglas">Mary Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim" title="Émile Durkheim">Émile Durkheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mircea_Eliade" title="Mircea Eliade">Mircea Eliade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_van_Gennep" title="Arnold van Gennep">Arnold van Gennep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard" title="René Girard">René Girard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Evans-Pritchard" title="E. E. Evans-Pritchard">E. E. Evans-Pritchard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_George_Frazer" title="James George Frazer">James Frazer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numa_Denis_Fustel_de_Coulanges" title="Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges">Fustel de Coulanges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Geertz" title="Clifford Geertz">Clifford Geertz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_W._G._Horton" title="Robin W. G. Horton">Robin Horton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss" title="Claude Lévi-Strauss">Claude Lévi-Strauss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Ranulph_Marett" title="Robert Ranulph Marett">Robert Marett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Ozment" title="Steven Ozment">Steven Ozment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Rappaport" title="Roy Rappaport">Roy Rappaport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saba_Mahmood" title="Saba Mahmood">Saba Mahmood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Sahlins" title="Marshall Sahlins">Marshall Sahlins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melford_Spiro" title="Melford Spiro">Melford Spiro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Jeyaraja_Tambiah" title="Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah">Stanley Tambiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Turner" title="Victor Turner">Victor Turner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Burnett_Tylor" title="Edward Burnett Tylor">Edward Burnett Tylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Martin_Varisco" title="Daniel Martin Varisco">Daniel Martin Varisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_F._C._Wallace" title="Anthony F. 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class="mw-redirect" title="Ibadi">Ibadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahdavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahdavia">Mahdavia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-denominational_Muslim" title="Non-denominational Muslim">Non-denominational</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quranism" title="Quranism">Quranists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazd%C3%A2nism" title="Yazdânism">Yazdânism</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Judaism" title="Conservative Judaism">Conservative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haredi_Judaism" title="Haredi Judaism">Haredi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism" title="Hasidic Judaism">Hasidic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haymanot" title="Haymanot">Haymanot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaite_Judaism" title="Karaite Judaism">Karaite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reform_Judaism" title="Reform Judaism">Reform</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Digambara" title="Digambara">Digambara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Avet%C4%81mbara" title="Śvetāmbara">Śvetāmbara</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Sikhism" title="Sikhism">Sikhism</a></dt></dl></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <a href="/wiki/Social_anthropology" title="Social anthropology">Social</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cultural_anthropology" title="Cultural anthropology">cultural anthropology</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Anthropology_of_religion" title="Template:Anthropology of religion"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Anthropology_of_religion" title="Template talk:Anthropology of religion"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Anthropology_of_religion" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Anthropology of religion"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Methods of divination can be found around the world, and many cultures practice the same methods under different names. During the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, scholars coined terms for many of these methods—some of which had hitherto been unnamed—in <a href="/wiki/Medieval_Latin" title="Medieval Latin">Medieval Latin</a>, very often utilizing the <a href="/wiki/Suffix" title="Suffix">suffix</a> -mantia when the art seemed more mystical (ultimately from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:μαντεία">μαντεία</a>, manteía, 'prophecy' or 'the power to prophesy') and the suffix -scopia when the art seemed more scientific (ultimately from Greek <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:σκοπεῖν">σκοπεῖν</a>, skopeîn, 'to observe'). Names like <a href="#D">drimimantia</a>, <a href="#N">nigromantia</a>, and <a href="#H">horoscopia</a> arose, along with other <a href="/wiki/Pseudosciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudosciences">pseudosciences</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Phrenology" title="Phrenology">phrenology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Physiognomy" title="Physiognomy">physiognomy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-GraftonMost2010-1">[1]</a> Some forms of divination are much older than the Middle Ages, like <a href="/wiki/Haruspex" title="Haruspex">haruspication</a>, while others such as coffee-based <a href="/wiki/Tasseomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Tasseomancy">tasseomancy</a> originated in the 20th and 21st centuries. The chapter "How Panurge consulteth with Herr Trippa" of <a href="/wiki/Gargantua_and_Pantagruel" title="Gargantua and Pantagruel">Gargantua and Pantagruel</a>, a parody on occult treatises of <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa" title="Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa">Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa</a>, contains a list of over two dozen "mancies", described as "common knowledge".<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> <div class="noprint" style="text-align:center;"><div role="navigation" id="toc" class="toc plainlinks" aria-labelledby="tocheading" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; text-align:center;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <div id="toctitle" class="toctitle" style="text-align:center;">Contents</div> <div style="margin:auto;"> <ul><li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> <li><a href="#D">D</a></li> <li><a href="#E">E</a></li> <li><a href="#F">F</a></li> <li><a href="#G">G</a></li> <li><a href="#H">H</a></li> <li><a href="#I">I</a></li> <li><a href="#J">J</a></li> <li><a href="#K">K</a></li> <li><a href="#L">L</a></li> <li><a href="#M">M</a></li> <li><a href="#N">N</a></li> <li><a href="#O">O</a></li> <li><a href="#P">P</a></li> <li><a href="#Q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#R">R</a></li> <li><a href="#S">S</a></li> <li><a href="#T">T</a></li> <li><a href="#U">U</a></li> <li><a href="#V">V</a></li> <li><a href="#W">W</a></li> <li><a href="#X">X</a></li> <li><a href="#Y">Y</a></li> <li><a href="#Z">Z</a> </li></ul> <ul><li><a href="#See_also">See also</a></li> <li><a href="#References">References</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Squaring_the_circle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Squaring_the_circle.jpg/220px-Squaring_the_circle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Squaring_the_circle.jpg/330px-Squaring_the_circle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Squaring_the_circle.jpg/440px-Squaring_the_circle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="568" data-file-height="534" /></a><figcaption>An arithmancer from Atalanta Fugiens (1618), by Michael Maier</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abacomancy" title="Abacomancy">abacomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæbəkoʊmænsi/</a> (also amathomancy): by dust (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> ’ābāq, 'dust' + <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acultomancy" title="Acultomancy">acultomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈkʌltoʊmænsi/</a> (also acutomancy): by needles (from acutomancy below, influenced by <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> acus, 'needle', or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aculeus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:aculeus">acūleus</a>, 'prickle, thorn')</li> <li>acutomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈkjuːtoʊmænsi/</a> → see <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r920966791">.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}</style><a href="#A">acultomancy</a> (Latin acus [acut-], 'needle' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>adromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈædroʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#A">alomancy</a> (from idromancy below, influenced by alomancy)</li> <li>adryomancy→ see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#H">hydromancy</a> (metathesis of hydromancy)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeromancy" title="Aeromancy">aeromancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛəroʊmænsi/</a>: by atmospheric conditions (Greek āēr, 'air' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>agalmatomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈɡɔːlmətoʊmænsi/</a>:[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] by statues (Greek ágalma [agálmatos], 'statue' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aichmomancy" title="Aichmomancy">aichmomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛkmoʊmænsi/</a>: by sharp objects (Greek aikhmē, 'spearhead' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ailuromancy" title="Ailuromancy">ailuromancy</a>/aeluromancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li>aiomancy:[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] By artificial intelligence</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alectormancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Alectormancy">alectormancy</a>/<a href="/wiki/Alectromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Alectromancy">alectromancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈlɛktroʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Rooster" class="mw-redirect" title="Rooster">rooster</a> sacrifice (Greek alektor, 'rooster' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alectryomancy" title="Alectryomancy">alectryomancy</a>/alectoromancy: by rooster divination → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleuromancy" title="Aleuromancy">aleuromancy</a>¹ <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈljʊəroʊmænsi/</a>: by flour; see also <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">chartomancy</a> (Greek áleuron, '<a href="/wiki/Flour" title="Flour">meal</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alomancy" title="Alomancy">alomancy</a>/Halomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæloʊmænsi/</a> (also adromancy): by salt (Greek háls, 'salt' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alphitomancy" title="Alphitomancy">alphitomancy</a><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈælfɪtoʊmænsi/</a>: by barley (Greek alphis [alphit-], 'barley' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>alveromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ælˈvɪəroʊmænsi/</a>:[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] by sounds</li> <li>amathomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæməθoʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#A">abacomancy</a> by sand (Greek amathos, 'sandy soil' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ambulomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæmbjʊloʊmænsi/</a>: by walking (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambulare#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:ambulare">ambulāre</a>, 'to walk' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amniomancy" title="Amniomancy">amniomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæmnioʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Placenta" title="Placenta">placenta</a> (Greek amniōn, '<a href="/wiki/Amnion" title="Amnion">amnion</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anemoscopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Anemoscopy">anemoscopy</a>/anemomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌænɪˈmɒskoʊpi/</a>: by wind (Greek anemos, 'wind' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li>anthomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈænθoʊmænsi/</a>: by flowers (Greek anthos, 'flower' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>anthracomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈænθrəkoʊmænsi/</a>: by burning coals (Greek anthrax [anthrak-], 'charcoal' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthropomancy" title="Anthropomancy">anthropomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ænˈθrɒpoʊmænsi/</a>: by human sacrifice (Greek anthrōpos, 'human being' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>anthroposcopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ænθroʊˈpɒskoʊpi/</a>: by physical appearance (Greek anthrōpos, 'human being' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apantomancy" title="Apantomancy">apantomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈpæntoʊmænsi/</a>: by chance encounters with animals (Greek apantein, 'to encounter' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>arachnomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈræknoʊmænsi/</a>: by spiders (Greek <a href="/wiki/Arachne" title="Arachne">arakhnē</a>, 'spider' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>archeomancy/archaeomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɑːrkioʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Relic" title="Relic">sacred relics</a> (Greek arkhaios, 'ancient' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ariolation <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌærioʊˈleɪʃən/</a>: by altars (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ariolus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:ariolus">ariolus</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hariolus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:hariolus">hariolus</a>, 'prophet')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arithmancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Arithmancy">arithmancy</a>: assigning numerical value to a word or phrase</li> <li>armomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɑːrmoʊmænsi/</a>: by one's own shoulders (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/armus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:armus">armus</a>, 'shoulder' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%85rsg%C3%A5ng" title="Årsgång">årsgång</a>, archaic form of Swedish divination</li> <li>aruspicina: study of entrails<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aspidomancy" title="Aspidomancy">aspidomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæspɪdoʊmænsi/</a>: by sitting in a drawn circle or on a shield (Greek aspis [aspid-], 'shield' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astragalomancy" title="Astragalomancy">astragalomancy</a>/astragalamancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">cleromancy</a></li> <li>astragyromancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">cleromancy</a> (from astragalomancy above, perhaps influenced by Greek guros, 'spiral, circle', and therefore <a href="/wiki/Vertebra" title="Vertebra">vertebra</a>)</li> <li>astrapomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæstrəpoʊmænsi/</a>: by lightning (Greek astrapē, 'lightning flash' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a>/<a href="/wiki/Astromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Astromancy">astromancy</a>/ <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈstrɒloʊdʒi/</a>: by celestial bodies (Greek astron, 'star' + -logiā, 'study'). This method was widespread in medieval period, particularly in Mesopotamia. <a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augury" title="Augury">augury</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɔːɡjʊəri/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li>auramancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɔːrəmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Aura_(paranormal)" title="Aura (paranormal)">auras</a> (Greek aurā, 'breath' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auspice" class="mw-redirect" title="Auspice">auspicy</a>/auspication → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:avis">avis</a>, 'bird' + <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/specere#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:specere">specere</a>, 'to look at')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Austromancy">austromancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɔːstroʊmænsi/</a>: by wind (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auster#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:auster">auster</a>, 'south wind' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>avimancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">orniscopy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:avis">avis</a>, 'bird' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axiomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Axiomancy">axiomancy</a>/<a href="/wiki/Axinomancy" title="Axinomancy">axinomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈæksioʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Axis_of_rotation" class="mw-redirect" title="Axis of rotation">axes</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/axis#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:axis">axis</a>, 'axis' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>batraquomancy/batrachomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/bəˈtrækoʊmænsi/</a>: by frogs (Greek batrakhos, 'frog' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belomancy" title="Belomancy">belomancy</a>/bolomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbɛloʊmænsi/</a>: by arrows (from bolomancy below, influenced by Greek belemnon, 'javelin', or belonē, 'needle')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliomancy" title="Bibliomancy">bibliomancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">chartomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biorhythm_(pseudoscience)" title="Biorhythm (pseudoscience)">biorhythmic</a> divination: by biorhythms</li> <li>bletonism/bletonomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈblɛtənɪzəm/</a>: by water current (named for Monsieur Bleton, a French bletonist)</li> <li>bolomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbɒloʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#B">belomancy</a> (Greek bolē, 'arrow' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>bone-throwing: the tossing of pieces of bone or wood practiced by various cultures<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botanomancy" title="Botanomancy">botanomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/boʊˈtænoʊmænsi/</a>: by burning pieces of plants, documented with burning <a href="/wiki/Vervain" class="mw-redirect" title="Vervain">vervain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Briar_(thicket)" class="mw-redirect" title="Briar (thicket)">briar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-book-7">[7]</a> (Greek botanē, '<a href="/wiki/Flora" title="Flora">flora</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>brizomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">oneiromancy</a> (Greek brizein, 'to be sleepy' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>brontomancy/brontoscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbrɒntoʊmænsi/</a>: by thunder (Greek brontē, 'thunder' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>bumpology <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/bʌmˈpɒloʊdʒi/</a>: by bumps on the skin (<a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> bump + Greek -logiā, 'study')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>cabala → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#K">kabbalah</a></li> <li>canomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkænoʊmænsi/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkeɪnoʊmænsi/</a>: by dogs (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canis#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:canis">canis</a>, 'dog' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capnomancy" title="Capnomancy">capnomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkæpnoʊmænsi/</a>: by smoke (Greek kapnos, 'smoke' + manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Libanomancy" title="Libanomancy">libanomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/laɪˈbænoʊmænsi/</a>: by smoke or ash from incense (Greek libanos, '<a href="/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')<a href="#cite_note-Delrio160-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Dunwich51-9">[9]</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carromancy" title="Carromancy">carromancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkæroʊmænsi/</a>: by melting wax (Greek karrō, 'of wax' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cartopedy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carta#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:carta">carta</a>, 'papyrus paper' + pēs [pēd-], 'foot')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cartomancy" title="Cartomancy">cartomancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">chartomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catoptromancy" title="Catoptromancy">catoptromancy</a>/captromancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Causimomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Causimomancy">causimancy</a>/causimomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkɔːzɪmænsi/</a>: by burning (Greek kaiein [kaus-], 'to burn' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cephalomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cephalomancy">cephalomancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cephalonomancy" title="Cephalonomancy">cephaleonomancy</a>/<a href="/wiki/Cephalonomancy" title="Cephalonomancy">cephalonomancy</a><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌsɛfəliˈɒnoʊmænsi/</a>: by boiling a donkey's head (Greek kephalaion, 'head' [with meaning influenced by Greek onos, 'donkey'] + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceraunoscopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceraunoscopy">ceraunoscopy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌsɛrəˈnɒskoʊpi/</a>: by thunder and lightning (Greek keraunos, 'thunderbolt' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceromancy">ceromancy</a>/ceroscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsɛroʊmænsi/</a>: by dripping wax in water (Greek kēros, 'wax' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>chalcomancy: by striking gongs or copper bowls (Greek khalkos, 'copper' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaomancy">chaomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkeɪoʊmænsi/</a>: by aerial visions (Greek khaos, '<a href="/wiki/Big_Bang" title="Big Bang">primordial space</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>chartomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkɑːrtoʊmænsi/</a>: by things on paper (Greek khartēs, 'papyrus paper' + manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cartomancy" title="Cartomancy">cartomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkɑːrtoʊmænsi/</a>: by cards (Latin carta, 'papyrus paper' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Taromancy">taromancy</a>/tarotmancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈtæroʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Tarot" title="Tarot">tarot</a> (English tarot + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parrot_astrology" title="Parrot astrology">Parrot astrology</a>: by parrots picking cards</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliomancy" title="Bibliomancy">stichomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈstɪkoʊmænsi/</a>: by books or lines (Greek stikhos, 'line of verse' + manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleuromancy" title="Aleuromancy">aleuromancy</a>² <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈljʊəroʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Fortune_cookie" title="Fortune cookie">fortune cookies</a> (of the same origin as <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#A">aleuromancy</a>¹)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliomancy" title="Bibliomancy">bibliomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbɪblioʊmænsi/</a>: by the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> (Greek biblion, 'book' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>stoicheomancy/stoichomancy: by the <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a> (Greek stoikheion, 'element' + manteía, 'prophecy'; to the Greeks, <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s writings were held in similar esteem to the Christian <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> or the Muslim <a href="/wiki/Qur%27an" class="mw-redirect" title="Qur'an">Quran</a>, as were <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s writings to the Romans, making them the basic — or elementary — reading material in each culture)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheiromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheiromancy">cheiromancy</a>/chiromancy→ see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a></li> <li>cheirognomy/chirognomy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a></li> <li>chien tung → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#K">kau cim</a></li> <li>choriomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkɒrioʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Pig_bladder" title="Pig bladder">pig bladders</a> (Greek khorion, '<a href="/wiki/Placenta" title="Placenta">placenta</a>' + mantiea, 'prophecy')</li> <li>chresmomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkrɛsmoʊmænsi/</a>: by the ravings of lunatics (Greek khrēsmos, 'oracular utterance', <a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">chresm</a> + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronomancy" title="Chronomancy">chronomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkrɒnoʊmænsi/</a>: by apt occasion (Greek khronos, 'time' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cineromancy/ceneromancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">spodomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsɪnəroʊmænsi/</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cinis#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:cinis">cinis</a> [ciner-], 'ashes' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>clamancy (see also <a href="/wiki/F%C4%81l-g%C5%ABsh" title="Fāl-gūsh">Fāl-gūsh</a>): by random shouts and cries heard in crowds, at night, etc. (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clamare#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:clamare">clāmāre</a>, 'to cry out' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cledonism" title="Cledonism">cledonism</a>/<a href="/wiki/Cledonomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cledonomancy">cledonomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈklɛdoʊnɪzəm/</a>: by chance events or overheard words (Greek klēdon, 'rumor')</li> <li>cleidomancy/clidomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈklaɪdoʊmænsi/</a>: by keys (Greek kleis [kleid-], 'key' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleromancy" title="Cleromancy">cleromancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈklɛroʊmænsi/</a>: by casting (Greek klēros, '<a href="/wiki/Sortition" title="Sortition">lot</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astragalomancy" title="Astragalomancy">astragalomancy</a>/astragalamancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈstræɡəloʊmænsi/</a> (also cubomancy): by <a href="/wiki/Dice" title="Dice">dice</a> (Greek astragalos, '<a href="/wiki/Vertebra" title="Vertebra">vertebra</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominoes" title="Dominoes">domino</a> divination: by dominoes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Favomancy" title="Favomancy">favomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈfævoʊmænsi/</a>: by beans (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faba#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:faba">faba</a>, 'bean' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a> casting: by Ogham letters</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runecasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Runecasting">runecasting</a>/<a href="/wiki/Runic_divination" class="mw-redirect" title="Runic divination">runic divination</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cometomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cometomancy">cometomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/koʊˈmɛtoʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comet</a> tails (Greek komētēs, 'comet' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>colormancy/coloromancy: by colors (English color + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>conchomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkɒŋkoʊmænsi/</a>: by shells (Greek konkhē, '<a href="/wiki/Mussel" title="Mussel">mussel</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coscinomancy" title="Coscinomancy">cosquinomancy</a>/coscinomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/koʊˈsɪnoʊmænsi/</a>: by hanging sieves (Greek koskinōn, 'sieve' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cottabomancy/cottobomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkɒtəboʊmænsi/</a>: by wine in a brass bowl (Greek kottabos, '<a href="/wiki/Kottabos_(game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kottabos (game)">cottabus</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>craniognomy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌkreɪniˈɒɡnoʊmi/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌkreɪniˈɒnəmi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a> (Greek krānion, 'skull' + -gnōmoniā, 'interpretation')</li> <li>the crawling baby: by a baby's crawling[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crithomancy" title="Crithomancy">crithomancy</a>/critomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkrɪθoʊmænsi/</a>: by barley cakes (Greek krithē, 'barley' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cromniomancy" title="Cromniomancy">cromnyomancy</a>/cromniomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkrɒmnioʊmænsi/</a>: by onion sprouts (alteration of Greek krommuon, 'onion' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cryptomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkrɪptoʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Omen" title="Omen">omens</a> (Greek kruptos, 'hidden' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cryomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkraɪoʊmænsi/</a>: by ice (Greek kryo, 'ice' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>crystal ball gazing → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_gazing" title="Crystal gazing">crystal gazing</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a></li> <li>crystallomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkrɪstəloʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a> (Greek krustallos, 'crystal' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cubomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkjuːboʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">cleromancy</a> (Greek kubos, 'cube' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cyathomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsaɪəθoʊmænsi/</a>: by cups (Greek kuathos, 'cup' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cybermancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsaɪbərmænsi/</a>: by computer oracles (English cyber(netics) + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cyclicomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsɪklɪkoʊmænsi/</a>: by swirling water in a cup (Greek kuklikos, 'cyclical, circular' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclomancy" title="Cyclomancy">cyclomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsɪkloʊmænsi/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈsaɪkloʊmænsi/</a>: by wheels (Greek kuklos, 'circle' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>dactyliomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/dækˈtɪlioʊmænsi/</a>: by finger rings (Greek daktulios, 'finger ring' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dactylomancy" title="Dactylomancy">dactylomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdæktɪloʊmænsi/</a>: by means of finger movements (Greek daktulos, 'finger' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daphnomancy" title="Daphnomancy">daphnomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdæfnoʊmænsi/</a>: by burning laurel wreaths (Greek daphnē, 'laurel' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>demonomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/dɪˈmɒnoʊmænsi/</a>: by demons (Greek daimōn, 'divine power' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>dendromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdɛndroʊmænsi/</a>: by trees, especially <a href="/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oaks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taxus" title="Taxus">yews</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Mistletoe" title="Mistletoe">mistletoe</a> (Greek dendron, 'tree' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>deuteroscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌdjuːtəˈrɒskoʊpi/</a>: by second glance or double take (Greek deuteros, 'secondary' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li>dianomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/daɪənoʊmænsi/</a>: by delivery, esp. by the randomly-generated words found on Whole Foods grocery bags to identify orders (Greek dianomí, 'delivery' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>dictiomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdɪkʃoʊmænsi/</a>: by randomly opening a dictionary (English <a href="/wiki/Dictionary" title="Dictionary">dictio(nary)</a> + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>divining → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#D">dowsing</a></li> <li>djubed[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]→ see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C5%8Dbutsu_uranai" title="Dōbutsu uranai">dōbutsu uranai</a>: by animal horoscope (<a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> dōbutsu, 'animal' + uranai, 'prognostication')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominoes" title="Dominoes">domino</a> divination → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">cleromancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dowsing" title="Dowsing">dowsing</a> (also divining, water witching): by a <a href="/wiki/Divining_rod" class="mw-redirect" title="Divining rod">divining rod</a> (of unknown origin)</li> <li>dracomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdrækoʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">dragons</a> (Greek drakōn, 'dragon' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dream_interpretation" title="Dream interpretation">dream interpretation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dream_question" title="Dream question">dream questions</a>: by dreaming</li> <li>dririmancy/driromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdrɪərɪmænsi/</a>: by dripping blood <a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> (alteration of drimimancy, influenced by Middle English drir, 'blood'). Compare hemotomancy.</li> <li>drimimancy/drymimancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdrɪmɪmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Bodily_fluids" class="mw-redirect" title="Bodily fluids">bodily fluids</a> (Greek drimus, 'pungent' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>electromancy: by lightning and electricity (Greek ilektros 'electric' + manteía 'prophecy')</li> <li>eleomancy/elaeomancy: by oil (Greek elaion, olive 'oil' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>emonomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#D">demonomancy</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>empirimancy: by experiment/experience</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empyromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Empyromancy">empyromancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ɛmˈpaɪəroʊmænsi/</a>: by burning (Greek empurios, 'fiery' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>encromancy: by oil ink stains (Greek elaion 'oil ink' + manteía 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enochian_chess" title="Enochian chess">enochian chess</a>: by playing a four·handed variant of the game</li> <li>enoptromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ɛˈnɒptroʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a> (Greek enoptron, '<a href="/wiki/Mirror" title="Mirror">looking glass</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enthusiasm" title="Enthusiasm">enthusiasm</a>: speeches by those supposed to be possessed by a divine spirit<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></li> <li>entomomancy/entomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Insect" title="Insect">insects</a> (Greek entomon, 'insect' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>eromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɛroʊmænsi/</a>: by water vessels exposed to air (Greek āēr, 'air' + manteía, 'prophecy') — cf. aeromancy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extispicy" class="mw-redirect" title="Extispicy">extispicy</a>/extispication <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ɛkˈstɪspɪsi/</a>: by the remains of sacrificed animals (Latin <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#exta" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion">exta</a>, 'entrails' + specere, 'to look at')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Favomancy" title="Favomancy">favomancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">cleromancy</a></li> <li>felidomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feles#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:feles">fēlēs</a> [fēlid-], 'cat' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>floriography/floromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌflɔːriˈɒɡrəfi/</a>: by flowers' feelings (Latin flōs [flōr-], 'flower' + Greek -graphiā, 'representation')</li> <li>fractomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈfræktoʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Fractal" title="Fractal">fractals</a> (English <a href="/wiki/Fractal" title="Fractal">fract(al)</a> + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>fructomancy/fructimancy: by fruit (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fructus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:fructus">frūctus</a>, 'fruit' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>galvanoscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌɡælvəˈnɒskoʊpi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Galvanism" title="Galvanism">galvanism</a> (English <a href="/wiki/Galvanism" title="Galvanism">galvan(ism)</a> + Greek -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_gazing" title="Crystal gazing">gastromancy</a>¹ → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a></li> <li>gastromancy² <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɡæstroʊmænsi/</a>: by guttural sounds (Greek gastēr, 'belly' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geomancy" title="Geomancy">geomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʒiːoʊmænsi/</a>: by earth (Greek <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CE%B1%E1%BF%96%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:γαῖα">gaîa</a>|<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%E1%BF%86#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:γῆ">gê</a>, 'earth' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>geloscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/dʒɪˈlɒskoʊpi/</a>: by laughter (Greek gelōs, 'laughter' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gematria" title="Gematria">gematria</a>: by the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Hebrew alphabet</a> (Greek gē, 'earth' + -metriā, 'measurement')</li> <li>genethlialogy: by birth dates (Greek genethlios, '<a href="/wiki/Birthday" title="Birthday">birthday</a>' + -logiā, 'study')</li> <li>grammomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɡræmoʊmænsi/</a>: by writing individual letters (Greek gramma, 'letter' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graphology" title="Graphology">graphology</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ɡræˈfɒloʊdʒi/</a> (also graptomancy): by studying handwriting (Greek graphē, 'writing' + -logiā, 'study')</li> <li>graptomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɡræptoʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#G">graphology</a> (Greek graptos, 'written' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyromancy" title="Gyromancy">gyromancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈdʒaɪəroʊmænsi/</a>: by dizziness (Greek gūros, 'spiral' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>hagiomancy: by saints (Greek hagios, 'holy' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>halomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈhæloʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#A">alomancy</a></li> <li>hakata: by bones or dice</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haruspex" title="Haruspex">haruspicy</a>/haruspication <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/həˈrʌspɪsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#H">hepatoscopy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haruspex#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:haruspex">haru-</a>, 'entrails' + <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/specere#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:specere">specere</a>, 'to look at')</li> <li>hematomancy/haematomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈhɛmətoʊmænsi, ˈhiː-/</a>: by blood (Greek haima [haimat-], 'blood' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hepatoscopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Hepatoscopy">hepatoscopy</a>/hepatomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈhɛpətoʊmænsi/</a> (also haruspicy, haruspication): by liver (Greek hēpar [hēpat-], 'liver' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li>hieromancy/hieroscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈhaɪəroʊmænsi/</a>: by studying sacrifices' entrails (Greek hieros, 'holy' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippomancy" title="Hippomancy">hippomancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horoscope" title="Horoscope">horoscopy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/hoʊˈrɒskoʊpi/</a>: aspect of the Stars at nativity<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> (Greek hōrā, 'season' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li>hydatomancy: by rainwater (Greek hudatis, 'raindrop' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>hydromancy/hydroscopy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a></li> <li>hyomancy: by wild hogs (Greek hūs, 'swine' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>hypnomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈhɪpnoʊmænsi/</a>: by sleep (Greek hupnos, 'sleep' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/I_Ching_divination" title="I Ching divination">I Ching divination</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Yarrow" class="mw-redirect" title="Yarrow">yarrow</a> stalks or coins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ichnomancy" title="Ichnomancy">ichnomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɪknoʊmænsi/</a>: by footprints (Greek ikhnos, 'track' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ichthyomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li>iconomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/aɪˈkɒnoʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Icon" title="Icon">icons</a> (Greek eikōn, 'image' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>idolomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/aɪˈdɒloʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Cult_image" title="Cult image">idols</a> (Greek eidōlon, 'phantom' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>idromancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#A">alomancy</a> (Greek idrōs, 'sweat' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/If%C3%A1" title="Ifá">ifá</a>: geomancy patterns generated with palm nuts, opele, cowrie shells, etc. that refer to Ifa divination texts; a collection of Odu Ifa verses</li> <li>iridology: by eye color (Greek īris [īrid-], '<a href="/wiki/Iris_(anatomy)" title="Iris (anatomy)">iris</a>' + -logiā, 'study')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isopsephy" title="Isopsephy">isopsephy</a>: by numbers and letters (Greek īsos, 'equal' + psephos, 'pebble')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jyotish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jyotish">Jyotish</a>: Vedic system of astrology</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">kabbalah</a>/qabalah/cabala: by the <a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">Kabbalah</a> (Hebrew qabbālâ, 'tradition')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kau_Cim" class="mw-redirect" title="Kau Cim">kau cim</a>: by bamboo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayu_ura" title="Kayu ura">kayu ura</a>: by rice gruel</li> <li>kephalonomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/kəˈfælənoʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">cephaleonomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceraunoscopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceraunoscopy">keraunomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/kɪˈrɒnoʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">ceraunoscopy</a></li> <li>knissomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈnɪsoʊmænsi/</a>: by incense (Greek knisa [kniss-], 'vapor' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>kypomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#P">phyllomancy</a> (akin to Greek kupellon, 'goblet' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>labiomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈleɪbioʊmænsi/</a>: by lips (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/labium#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:labium">labium</a>, 'lip' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampadomancy" title="Lampadomancy">lampadomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈlæmpədoʊmænsi/</a>: by flame (Greek lampas [lampad-], 'light' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lecanomancy" title="Lecanomancy">lecanomancy</a>/lecanoscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/lɪˈkænoʊmænsi/</a>: by a basin of water (Greek lekanē, 'basin' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>letnomancy: by secrets (English let no (man see) + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libanomancy" title="Libanomancy">libanomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/laɪˈbænoʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">capnomancy</a> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">spodomancy</a> (Greek libanos, '<a href="/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literomancy" title="Literomancy">literomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈlɪtəroʊmænsi/</a>: by a letter in a written language (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/littera#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:littera">lītera</a>, 'letter' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithomancy" title="Lithomancy">lithomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈlɪθoʊmænsi/</a>: by gems or stones (Greek lithos, 'stone' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>logarithmancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌlɒɡəˈrɪθmənsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Logarithm" title="Logarithm">logarithms</a> (English logarithm + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>logomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈlɒɡoʊmænsi/</a>: by words (Greek <a href="/wiki/Logos" title="Logos">logos</a>, 'word' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>lots: divination through chance, or the drawing or tossing of lots<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></li> <li>lunamancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">selenomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/luna#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:luna">lūna</a>, 'moon' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>lychnomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈlɪknoʊmænsi/</a>: by candles (Greek lukhnos, 'lamp' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Macharomancy" title="Macharomancy">macharomancy</a>: by swords or knives (Greek makhaira, '<a href="/wiki/Dirk" title="Dirk">dirk</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>macromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmækroʊmænsi/</a>: by large objects (Greek makros, 'large' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>maculomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmækjʊloʊmænsi/</a>: by spots on the skin (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/macula#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:macula">macula</a>, 'spot' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahjong" title="Mahjong">mahjong</a> divination: by Mahjong tiles</li> <li>margaritomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌmɑːrɡəˈrɪtoʊmænsi/</a>: by bouncing pearls (Greek margarītēs, 'pearl' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>mathemancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmæθɪmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> (English mathe(matics) + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>mazomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmæzoʊmænsi/</a>: by nursing (Greek mazos, 'breast' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>meconomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/mɪˈkoʊnoʊmænsi/</a>: by sleeping (Greek mēkōn, 'poppy' [i.e., an <a href="/wiki/Opiate" title="Opiate">opiate</a>] + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megapolisomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Megapolisomancy">megapolisomancy</a>: by large cities (English <a href="/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)" class="mw-redirect" title="Megalopolis (city type)">megalopolis</a> + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>meilomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Mole_(skin_marking)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mole (skin marking)">moles</a></li> <li>metagnomy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/mɪˈtæɡnoʊmi/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/mɪˈtænoʊmi/</a>: by magic (Greek meta-, 'beside' + -gnōmoniā, 'interpretation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteormancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Meteormancy">meteormancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmiːtioʊrmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Meteor" class="mw-redirect" title="Meteor">meteors</a> (English meteor + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>meteoromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌmiːtiˈɒroʊmænsi/</a>: by thunder and lightning (Greek meteōron, 'heavenly phenomenon' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metoposcopy" title="Metoposcopy">metoposcopy</a>/metopomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌmɛtoʊˈpɒskoʊpi/</a>: by the lines of the forehead<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> (Greek metōpon, 'forehead' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li>micromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmaɪkroʊmænsi/</a>: by small objects (Greek mikros, 'small' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moleosophy" title="Moleosophy">moleosophy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/moʊˈlɒsoʊfi/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌmoʊliˈɒsoʊfi/</a>: by blemishes (English <a href="/wiki/Mole_(skin_marking)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mole (skin marking)">mole</a> + Greek sophiā, 'knowledge')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molybdomancy" title="Molybdomancy">molybdomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/moʊˈlɪbdoʊmænsi/</a>: by molten metal (Greek molubdos, 'lead' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>moromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmɒroʊmænsi/</a>: by foolishness (Greek mōros, 'dull' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myomancy" title="Myomancy">myomancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li>myrmomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>narcomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈnɑːrkoʊmænsi/</a>: by sleep (Greek narkē, 'numbness' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>natimancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/natis#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:natis">natis</a>, 'buttock' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necromancy" title="Necromancy">necromancy</a>¹ <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈnɛkroʊmænsi/</a>: by speaking to the dead, by corpses<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> (Greek nekros, 'corpse' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>necyomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈniːsioʊmænsi/</a>: by summoning damned souls (Greek nekuiā, '<a href="/wiki/Invocation#Command_or_conjuration" title="Invocation">invocation</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nephomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Nephomancy">nephomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈnɛfoʊmænsi/</a>: by clouds (Greek nephos, 'cloud' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigromancy">nigromancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈnaɪɡroʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Black_magic" title="Black magic">black magic</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/niger#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:niger">niger</a>, 'black' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onomancy" title="Onomancy">nomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈnɒmənsi/</a> or <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈnoʊmənsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">onomancy</a> (variant of onomancy, influenced by Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:nomen">nōmen</a>, 'name')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notarikon" title="Notarikon">notarikon</a>/netrikon: by <a href="/wiki/Initialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Initialism">initials</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noto#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:noto">notāricus</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Shorthand" title="Shorthand">shorthand</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ngg%C3%A0m" title="Nggàm">nggàm</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numerology" title="Numerology">numerology</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌnjuːməˈrɒloʊdʒi/</a>: by numbers (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/numerus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:numerus">numerus</a>, 'number' + Greek -logia, 'branch of study')</li> <li>numismatomancy: by coins (Greek nomisma [nomismat-], 'coin' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oculomancy" title="Oculomancy">oculomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɒkjʊloʊmænsi/</a>: by eyes (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oculus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:oculus">oculus</a>, 'eye' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>odontomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/oʊˈdɒntoʊmænsi/</a>: by teeth (Greek odous [odont-], 'tooth' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oinomancy" title="Oinomancy">oenomancy</a>/oinomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈiːnoʊmænsi/</a>: by wine (Greek oinos, 'wine' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ololygmancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/oʊˈlɒlɪɡmænsi/</a>: by the howling of dogs (Greek ololuzō [ololug-], 'howl' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>omoplatoscopy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scapulimancy</a> (Greek ōmoplatē, 'shoulder blade' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omphalomancy" title="Omphalomancy">omphalomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɒmfəloʊmænsi/</a>: by navels (Greek omphalos, 'navel' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oneiromancy" title="Oneiromancy">oneiromancy</a>/oneiroscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/oʊˈnɪəroʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Dream" title="Dream">dreams</a> (Greek oneiros, 'dream' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>onimancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɒnɪmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">onychomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onomancy" title="Onomancy">onomancy</a>/onomomancy/nomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɒnoʊmænsi/</a>: by letters in a name (Greek onoma, 'name' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>onomomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/oʊˈnoʊmoʊmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">onomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onychomancy" title="Onychomancy">onychomancy</a>/onymancy/onimancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/oʊˈnɪkoʊmænsi/</a>: by finger· and toenails (Greek onux [onukh-], 'nail' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>onymancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɒnɪmænsi/</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">onychomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oomancy" title="Oomancy">oomancy</a>/ooscopy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈoʊoʊmænsi/</a> (also ovomancy): by eggs (Greek ōion, 'egg' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ophidiomancy/ophiomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li>ophthalmomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">oculomancy</a> (Greek ophthalmos, 'eye' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>organoscopy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#P">phrenology</a> (Greek organon, '<a href="/wiki/Organ_(anatomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Organ (anatomy)">organ</a>' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orniscopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Orniscopy">orniscopy</a>/ornithomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a></li> <li>oromancy: by mountains (Greek oros, 'mountain' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>oryctomancy: by minerals (Greek oruktos, 'dug' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ossomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">osteomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/os#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:os">os</a> [oss-], 'bone' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>osteomancy: by bones (Greek osteon, 'bone' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouija" title="Ouija">Ouija</a>/Ouije: by <a href="/wiki/Ouija_board" class="mw-redirect" title="Ouija board">ouija board</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oui#French" class="extiw" title="wikt:oui">oui</a>, 'yes' + <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ja#German" class="extiw" title="wikt:ja">ja</a>, 'yes')</li> <li>ouranomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#U">uranomancy</a></li> <li>ovomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#O">oomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ovum#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:ovum">ōvum</a>, 'egg' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Enrique_Simonet_-_La_buenaventura.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Enrique_Simonet_-_La_buenaventura.jpg/300px-Enrique_Simonet_-_La_buenaventura.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Enrique_Simonet_-_La_buenaventura.jpg/450px-Enrique_Simonet_-_La_buenaventura.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Enrique_Simonet_-_La_buenaventura.jpg/600px-Enrique_Simonet_-_La_buenaventura.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5323" data-file-height="3740" /></a><figcaption>The Fortune Teller, by <a href="/wiki/Enrique_Simonet" title="Enrique Simonet">Enrique Simonet</a> (1899; canvas; <a href="/wiki/Museo_de_M%C3%A1laga" title="Museo de Málaga">Museo de Málaga</a>), depicting a palm reading</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pagtatawas" title="Pagtatawas">Pagtatawas</a> by reading melted alum</li> <li>pallomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Pendulum" title="Pendulum">pendulums</a> (Greek pallein, 'to sway' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmistry" title="Palmistry">palmistry</a>/palm reading → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palma#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:palma">palma</a>, 'palm')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papyromancy" title="Papyromancy">papyromancy</a>: by folding paper, especially <a href="/wiki/Banknote" title="Banknote">paper money</a> (Greek papūros, 'papyrus paper' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>pedomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a> (from podomancy, influenced by Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pes#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:pes">pēs</a> [pēd-], 'foot')</li> <li>pegomancy: by fountains (Greek pēgē, 'spring' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>pessomancy: by pebbles (Greek pessos, 'oval pebble' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>pecthimancy/petchimancy: by brushed cloth (possibly akin to Greek pekein, to <a href="/wiki/Raising_card" title="Raising card">card wool</a>, or pēktē, 'netting' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>phallomancy: by swing of the phallus (Greek phallus, 'phallus' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>phobomancy: by feelings of fear (Greek phobos, 'fear' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>photomancy: by fields of light (Greek phōs [phōt-], 'light' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrenology" title="Phrenology">phrenology</a> (also organoscopy): by the configuration of one's brain (Greek phrēn, 'mind' + -logiā, 'study')</li> <li>phyllomancy: by leaves (Greek phullon, 'leaf' + manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li>sycomancy: by fig leaves (Greek sūkon, 'fig' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasseography" title="Tasseography">tasseography</a>/<a href="/wiki/Tasseomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Tasseomancy">tasseomancy</a> (also kypomancy): by tea leaves or coffee grounds (French <a href="/wiki/Tazza_(cup)" title="Tazza (cup)">tasse</a>, 'cup' + Greek -graphiā, 'representation')</li></ul></li> <li>phyllorhodomancy: by rose petals (Greek phullon, 'leaf' + rhodon, 'rose' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physiognomy" title="Physiognomy">physiognomy</a>/physiognomancy: by faces (Greek phusis, 'nature' + -gnōmoniā, 'interpretation')</li> <li>phytognomy: by the appearance of plants (Greek phuton, 'plant' + -gnōmoniā, 'interpretation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plastromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastromancy">plastromancy</a>: by cracks formed by heat on a turtle's <a href="/wiki/Plastron" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastron">plastron</a> (English <a href="/wiki/Plastron" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastron">plastron</a> + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>pilimancy: by observing the patterns produced by a collection of human hair</li> <li>plumbomancy: by observing shapes molten lead makes when poured in water (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plumbum#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:plumbum">plumbum</a>, 'lead' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>pneumancy: by blowing (Greek pneuma, 'breath' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Podomancy" title="Podomancy">podomancy</a>/pedomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poe_divination" title="Poe divination">poe divination</a>: by throwing stones on the floor, practised at <a href="/wiki/Taoist" class="mw-redirect" title="Taoist">Taoist</a> temples</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#portentum" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion">portenta</a> (also <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#ostentum" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion">ostenta</a>): study of natural phenomena<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></li> <li>psephomancy: by lots or ballots (Greek psephos, 'pebble' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>pseudomancy: by false means (Greek pseudēs, 'false' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychognomy" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychognomy">psychognomy</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Phrenology" title="Phrenology">phrenological</a> 'notations' (Greek psūkhē, 'soul' + -gnōmoniā, 'observation')</li> <li>psychomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#N">necromancy</a>¹ (Greek psūkhē, 'soul' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ptarmoscopy/ptarmoscopie: the interpretation of sneezes<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> (from Ancient Greek)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyromancy" title="Pyromancy">pyromancy</a>/pyroscopy: by fire (Greek pūr, 'fire' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>qabalah → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#K">kabbalah</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>radiesthesia: by rods, <a href="/wiki/Pendulum" title="Pendulum">pendulums</a>, or other cylindrical tools (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radius#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:radius">radius</a>, '<a href="/wiki/Spoke" title="Spoke">spoke</a>' + Greek -aisthēsiā, 'sensing')</li> <li>retromancy: by looking over one's shoulder (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retro#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:retro">retrō</a>, 'behind' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhabdomancy" title="Rhabdomancy">rhabdomancy</a>/rabdomancy: by rods, sticks, or wands (Greek rhabdos, 'rod' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhapsodomancy" title="Rhapsodomancy">rhapsodomancy</a>: by poetry (Greek rhapsōidiā, 'verse' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>roadomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Constellation" title="Constellation">constellations</a> (apparently from <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> rodor, '<a href="/wiki/Firmament" title="Firmament">firmament</a>' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runecasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Runecasting">runecasting</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">cleromancy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scapulimancy" title="Scapulimancy">scapulimancy</a>/scapulomancy (also <a href="/wiki/Spatulamancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Spatulamancy">spatulamancy</a>, omoplatoscopy): by bovine or <a href="/wiki/Caprid" class="mw-redirect" title="Caprid">caprid</a> shoulder blades (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scapula#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:scapula">scapula</a>, 'shoulder blade' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>scarpomancy: by old shoes (<a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> scarpa, 'shoe' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scatomancy" title="Scatomancy">scatomancy</a>: by excrement (Greek skōr [skat-], 'excrement' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>schematomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">somatomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sciomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sciomancy">sciomancy</a>¹ (also shadowmancy): by shadows (Greek skiā, 'shadow' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sciomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sciomancy">sciomancy</a>²: by spirits (of the same origin as sciomancy¹)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scrying" title="Scrying">scrying</a>: by gazing (shortened from <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Descry" class="extiw" title="wikt:Descry">descrying</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_gazing" title="Crystal gazing">crystal gazing</a>: by reflective objects <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catoptromancy" title="Catoptromancy">catoptromancy</a>/captromancy (also enoptromancy, djubed[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]): by mirrors (Greek katoptron, 'mirror' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_gazing" title="Crystal gazing">gastromancy</a>¹ (also crystallomancy, spheromancy, crystal ball gazing): by crystal ball (Greek gastēr, 'belly' [i.e., round object] + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydromancy" title="Hydromancy">hydromancy</a> (also ydromancy): by water (Greek hudōr, 'water' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>selenomancy: by the moon (Greek selēnē, 'moon' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>shadowmancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">sciomancy</a>¹ (English shadow + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>shufflemancy: by the use of an electronic media player such as an electronic playlist, iPod, or other medium wherein one skips a certain number of songs and the lyrics and/or tune of the song is the answer to the divinatory question[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sideromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sideromancy">sideromancy</a>: by burning straw with an iron (Greek sidēros, '<a href="/wiki/Ironing" title="Ironing">iron</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikidy" title="Sikidy">sikidy</a>: by drawing sixteen lines in sand (perhaps a <a href="/wiki/Malagasy_language" title="Malagasy language">Malagasy</a> transliteration of English sixteen)</li> <li>skatharomancy: by beetle tracks (Greek skatharōn, 'spot' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slinneanachd" title="Slinneanachd">slinneanachd</a>/slinnanacht: by animal shoulder blades (<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a> slinnean, 'shoulder blade')</li> <li>solaromancy: by the sun (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sol#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:sol">sōl</a> [<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/solaris#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:solaris">sōlār-</a>], 'sun' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>somatomancy: by the human form (Greek sōma [sōmat-], 'body' + manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cephalomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cephalomancy">cephalomancy</a> (also craniognomy): by skulls (Greek kephalē, 'head' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheiromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheiromancy">cheiromancy</a>/chiromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/kaɪˈrɒmænsi/</a> (also palmistry, palm reading): by palms<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> (Greek kheir, 'hand' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>cheirognomy/chirognomy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/kaɪˈrɒ(ɡ)noʊmi/</a>: by hands (Greek kheir, 'hand' + -gnōmoniā, 'interpretation')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Podomancy" title="Podomancy">podomancy</a>/pedomancy (also cartopedy): by the soles of one's feet (Greek pous [pod-], 'foot' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>schematomancy: by the face (Greek skhēma [skhēmat-], 'figure' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul></li> <li>sortilege: by the casting of lots, or <a href="/wiki/Sortes_(ancient_Rome)" title="Sortes (ancient Rome)">sortes</a> <ul><li>sortes virgilianae: by <a href="/wiki/Vergil" class="mw-redirect" title="Vergil">Vergil</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></li></ul></li> <li>spasmatomancy: by convulsions (alteration of spasmodomancy, from Greek spasmos [spasmōd-], 'spasm' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>spatilomancy: by animal excrement (Greek spatilē, 'excrement' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spatulamancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Spatulamancy">spatulamancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scapulimancy</a> (from scapulimancy, influenced by Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spatula#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:spatula">spatula</a>, '<a href="/wiki/Splint_(medicine)" title="Splint (medicine)">splint</a>')</li> <li>spheromancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a> (Greek sphaira, '<a href="/wiki/Sphere" title="Sphere">sphere</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>sphondulomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Spindle_(textiles)" title="Spindle (textiles)">spindles</a> (Greek sphondulos, 'spindle' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>splanchnomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#A">anthropomancy</a> (Greek splankhna, 'innards' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spodomancy" title="Spodomancy">spodomancy</a>: by soot (Greek spodos, 'wood ashes' + manteía, 'prophecy') <ul><li>cineromancy/ceneromancy: by the ashes of a specifically sacrificial or ritual fire<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libanomancy" title="Libanomancy">libanomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/laɪˈbænoʊmænsi/</a>: by smoke or ash from incense (Greek libanos, '<a href="/wiki/Frankincense" title="Frankincense">frankincense</a>' + manteía, 'prophecy')<a href="#cite_note-Delrio160-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Dunwich51-9">[9]</a></li> <li>tephramancy/tephromancy: by tree <a href="/wiki/Bark_(botany)" title="Bark (botany)">bark</a> ashes, by sacrificial or ritual fire ashes, or human sacrificial victim ashes (Greek tephrā, 'ash' + manteía, 'prophecy')<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></li></ul></li> <li>stareomancy: by the <a href="/wiki/Classical_element" title="Classical element">four elements</a> (Greek stais [stair-], 'dough' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>stercomancy: by seeds in bird excrement (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stercus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:stercus">stercus</a>, 'excrement' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sternomancy" title="Sternomancy">sternomancy</a>: by ridges on the <a href="/wiki/Breastbone" class="mw-redirect" title="Breastbone">breastbone</a> (Greek sternon, 'breastbone' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>stichomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">chartomancy</a></li> <li>stigonomancy: by burning writing onto bark (Greek stizein [stigōn-], 'to brand' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>stoicheomancy/stoichomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">chartomancy</a></li> <li>stolisomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Fashion" title="Fashion">fashion</a> (Greek stolis, 'garment' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>styramancy: by observing patterns produced by chewing gum, gum wax, or products produced by the L. styraciflua tree</li> <li>sycomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#P">phyllomancy</a></li> <li>symbolomancy: by things found on the road (Greek sumbolon, 'sign' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Taromancy">taromancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#C">chartomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasseography" title="Tasseography">tasseography</a>/<a href="/wiki/Tasseomancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Tasseomancy">tasseomancy</a> → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#P">phyllomancy</a></li> <li>technomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> (English techno(logy) + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temurah_(Kabbalah)" title="Temurah (Kabbalah)">temurah</a>: → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#K">kabbalah</a></li> <li>tephramancy/tephromancy: → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">spodomancy</a> (Greek tephrā, 'ash' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>theomancy: foretelling events, prophecy<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> (Greek theos, 'god' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>theriomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈθɪərioʊmænsi/</a>: (also zoomancy): by animal behavior (Greek thēr, 'wild animal' + manteía, 'prophecy')<figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ChickenDivination.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/ChickenDivination.jpg/270px-ChickenDivination.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/ChickenDivination.jpg/405px-ChickenDivination.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/ChickenDivination.jpg/540px-ChickenDivination.jpg 2x" data-file-width="666" data-file-height="549" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> peasant girls using chicken for divination. A 19th·century <a href="/wiki/Lubok" title="Lubok">lubok</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ailuromancy" title="Ailuromancy">ailuromancy</a>/aeluromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/aɪˈlʊəroʊmænsi/</a> (also felidomancy): by cats (Greek ailouros, 'cat' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alectryomancy" title="Alectryomancy">alectryomancy</a>/alectoromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/əˈlɛktərioʊmænsi/</a>: by rooster behavior (Greek alektruōn, 'cockerel' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augur" title="Augur">augury</a>: by bird formations<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/augur#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:augur">augur</a>, 'diviner')</li> <li>hippomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈhɪpoʊmænsi/</a>: by horse behavior (Greek hippos, 'horse' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>ichthyomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈɪkθioʊmænsi/</a>: by fish behavior (Greek ikhthūs, 'fish' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myomancy" title="Myomancy">myomancy</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmaɪoʊmænsi/</a>: by rodent behavior (Greek mūs, 'mouse' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>myrmomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈmɜːrmoʊmænsi/</a>: by ant behavior (Greek murmēx, 'ant' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ngg%C3%A0m" title="Nggàm">nggàm</a>: by spider or crab behavior (<a href="/wiki/Mambila" class="mw-redirect" title="Mambila">Mambila</a> nggàm, 'divination')</li> <li>ophidiomancy/ophiomancy: by snake behavior (Greek ophis [ophid-], 'snake' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orniscopy" class="mw-redirect" title="Orniscopy">orniscopy</a>/ornithomancy (also auspicy/auspication, avimancy): by bird migration (Greek ornīs [ornīth-], 'bird' + -skopiā, 'observation')</li></ul></li> <li>thumomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈθjuːmoʊmænsi/</a>: by one's own soul, presage<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> (Greek thūmos, 'soul' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>topomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈtɒpoʊmænsi/</a>: by geography and geological formations (Greek topos, 'place' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>transataumancy: by things accidentally seen or heard</li> <li>trochomancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈtrɒkoʊmænsi/</a>: by <a href="/wiki/Rut_(roads)" title="Rut (roads)">wheel ruts</a> (Greek trokhos, 'wheel' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>turifumy: by shapes in smoke (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:tus">tūs</a> [tūr-], 'incense' + <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fumus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:fumus">fūmus</a>, 'vapor')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyromancy" title="Tyromancy">tyromancy</a>/tiromancy <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈtaɪəroʊmænsi/</a>: by cheese (Greek tūros, 'cheese' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: U">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>umbilicomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Umbilical_cord" title="Umbilical cord">umbilical cords</a> (English <a href="/wiki/Umbilical_cord" title="Umbilical cord">umbilic(al cord)</a> + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>umbromancy: by shade (Latin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/umbra#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:umbra">umbra</a>, 'shadow' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>uranomancy/ouranomancy: by the sky (Greek ouranos, 'firmament' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Uromancy">uromancy</a>/urimancy: by <a href="/wiki/Urine" title="Urine">urine</a> (Greek ouron, 'urine' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>urticariaomancy: by itches (<a href="/wiki/Neo-Latin" title="Neo-Latin">Neo-Latin</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/urticaria#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:urticaria">urticāria</a>, '<a href="/wiki/Urticaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Urticaria">hives</a>' + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: V">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>videomancy: by <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">films</a> (English <a href="/wiki/Video" title="Video">video</a> + Greek manteía, 'prophecy')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: W">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>water witching → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#D">dowsing</a></li> <li>wishbone → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="/wiki/Furcula#In_folklore" title="Furcula">furcula</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: X">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>xenomancy: by strangers (Greek xenos, 'stranger' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>xylomancy: by the shape or texture of wood, or the appearance of burning wood (Greek xulon, 'wood' + manteía, 'prophecy')<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Y">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>ydromancy¹ → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#S">scrying</a></li> <li>ydromancy² → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#A">alomancy</a> (from idromancy above, influenced by alomancy)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Z">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>zoomancy → see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r920966791"><a href="#T">theriomancy</a> (Greek zōion, 'being' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>zygomancy: by weights (Greek zugon, 'yoke, balance' + manteía, 'prophecy')</li> <li>zeteomancy: by seeking out knowledge[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Methods_of_divination&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Divination" title="Divination">Divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_astrological_traditions" class="mw-redirect" 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"Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the Entrails of a sacrificed beast; which was Aruspicina..." </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDriediger-MurphyEidinow2019" class="citation book cs1">Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay G.; Eidinow, Esther (2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Nx6yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18">Ancient Divination and Experience</a>. 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Candlelight Spells: The Modern Witch's Book of Spellcasting, Feasting, and Healing. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1988, p. 51. </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBuckland2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Buckland" title="Raymond Buckland">Buckland, Raymond</a> (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_DTXAAAAMAAJ">The Fortune-telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying</a>. Popular Reference. Visible Ink Press. p. 191. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780780807204" title="Special:BookSources/9780780807204"><bdi>9780780807204</bdi></a>. Retrieved 13 February 2024. <q>When there was a ritual sacrifice of an animal (or of a human), the way in which the blood dripped from the altar was often considered by the priest/soothsayer. Divining in this way was known as dririmancy. This form of divination might also be employed on the battle field. Dririmancy was a form of haemotomancy.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Fortune-telling+Book%3A+The+Encyclopedia+of+Divination+and+Soothsaying&rft.series=Popular+Reference&rft.pages=191&rft.pub=Visible+Ink+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9780780807204&rft.aulast=Buckland&rft.aufirst=Raymond&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_DTXAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMethods+of+divination" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the insignificant Speeches of Madmen, supposed to be possessed with a divine Spirit; which Possession they called Enthusiasm..." </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the aspect of the Stars at their Nativity; which was called Horoscopy, and esteemed a part of judiciary Astrology..." </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes, in mere Lottery, as Cross and Pile; counting holes in a sieve; dipping of Verses in Homer, and Virgil; and innumerable other such vain conceipts..." </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the Lineaments of the face; which was called Metoposcopy..." </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the Prediction of Witches, that pretended conference with the dead; which is called Necromancy, Conjuring, and Witchcraft; and is but juggling and confederate knavery..." </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in Monsters, or unusual accidents; as Eclipses, Comets, rare Meteors, Earthquakes, Inundations, uncouth Births, and the like, which they called Portenta and Ostenta, because they thought them to portend, or foreshow some great Calamity to come..." </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> Sciences et Voyages No24 Juin 1937 "Divination, magie et tatouages en Bosnie </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in...Palmistry in the lines of the hand; in casual words, called Omina..." </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a> Buckland, Raymond. The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying. Detroit, Mich.: Visible Ink, 2004, p. 102. </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> Not all sources agree that tephramancy and tephromancy are synonyms. Some sources claim that tephramancy uses only the ash of tree <a href="/wiki/Bark_(botany)" title="Bark (botany)">bark</a>, while tephromancy may use the ashes of any sacrifice. See: Buckland, The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying, 2004, p. 479; Pickover, Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction, 2001, p. 183; Dunwich, Gerina. Candlelight Spells: The Modern Witch's Book of Spellcasting, Feasting, and Healing, 1988, p. 153. Other sources claim that tephramancy utilizes only the ashes of human sacrificial victims. See: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=e8BZAAAAMAAJ&dq=tephramancy&pg=PA408">Spence, Lewis. An Encyclopaedia of Occultism. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920, p. 408</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=89sXRiQ5_E4C&dq=tephramancy&pg=PA58">Ellison, Robert Lee. The Solitary Druid: Walking the Path of Wisdom and Spirit. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2005, p. 58</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gvFetCKKfBYC&dq=tephramancy&pg=PA236">Waite, Arthur Edward. A Manual of Cartomancy and Occult Divination. Reprint ed. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 1995, p. 236</a>; Robertson, John G. Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements. Eugene, Ore.: Senior Scribe Publications, 1991, p. 193. </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...and these kinds of foretelling events, were accounted Theomancy or Prophecy..." </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the Casual flight, or feeding of birds; called Augury..." </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Hobbes, Thomas</a>. <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)" title="Leviathan (Hobbes book)">Leviathan</a> (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in their own hopes and fears, called Thumomancy, or Presage..." </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> Pickover, Clifford A. Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction. 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