Methods of divination can be found around the world, and many cultures practice the same methods under different names. During the Middle Ages, scholars...

purposes. Particular divination methods vary by culture and religion. In its functional relation to magic in general, divination can have a preliminary...

Geomancy, a compound of Greek roots denoting "earth divination", was originally used to mean methods of divination that interpret geographic features...

Ching divination is a form of cleromancy applied to the I Ching. The text of the I Ching consists of sixty-four hexagrams: six-line figures of yin (broken)...

may include the way incense ash falls as well. Like most other methods of divination, during libanomancy a specific question must be asked. The incense...

magic and technology or a diviner who divines using technology; see Methods of divination § T GURPS Technomancer, a GURPS campaign setting The Technomancer...

I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used...

Maleficium (sorcery) Mathers table Mediumship Mephistopheles Mesmerism Methods of divination Metoposcopy see also Phrenology, Physiognomy Mojo (African-American...

machairomancy) is a form of divination by interpreting knives, daggers, or swords, one of many methods of divination based on the use of weapons (cf belomancy...

method of divination or fortune-telling using cheese. Written accounts of the practice date from the 2nd century AD, with it reaching the height of its...

19th and 20th century, methods of divination from non-Western cultures, such as the I Ching, were also adopted as methods of fortune telling in western...

direction in which it runs. This appears to be similar to the Roman methods of divination which ascribe meaning to the directions from which birds fly, with...

(Ancient Greek ὑδρομαντεία, water-divination, from ὕδωρ, water, and μαντεία, divination) is a method of divination by means of water, including the color, ebb...

After a couple of years, "mood rings" went out of fashion. Biorhythm (pseudoscience) Liquid crystal thermometer Methods of divination Marechal, Catherine;...

Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of divination – during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 –...

calculating') has utilized many varying divination techniques throughout the dynastic periods. There are many methods still in practice in Mainland China...

usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The...

(also known as tasseomancy, tassology, or tasseology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or...

related form of divination with flames of three identical candles arranged in a triangle. Lampadomancy was a popular method of divination in ancient Egypt...

Game of Tarots), Court de Gébelin assigned Egyptian, kabbalistic, and divine significance to the tarot trumps. Etteilla created a method of divination using...

knowledge and divination around the Yellow Emperor. Unlike Confucian methods, publicly transmitted by the state, these Taoist methods were taught in...

between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. It was reprinted again in 1603 when James took the throne of England. The widespread...

horoskopoi, or "marker(s) of the hour"). It is claimed by proponents of astrology that a horoscope can be used as a method of divination regarding events relating...

Gyromancy is a method of divination in which a person spins around inside or walks the circumference of a circle drawn on the ground, the perimeter of which is...

Sortes biblicae (transl. biblical lots) is a method of divination where by the Bible is opened randomly and the first words which one sees or points to...

Religion portal Axinomancy is an obscure method of divination using an axe, hatchet, or (rarely) a saw. Most methods involve throwing an axe into the ground...

to recreate yourself with the deck of cards called tarots") in 1783. It was the first book of methods of divination by Tarot. In the book, Etteilla claimed...

(Divination: Big Six Heavenly Yang Water Qi) Tai Yi Shen Shu, 太乙神數 (Divination: Tai Yi Magical Calculation Method) Date Selection, 擇日 (selection of auspicious...

anthropos (ἄνθρωπος, man) and manteia (μαντεία, divination)) is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women through sacrifice....

discusses aspects of weather and geographic features that are related to combat, as well as traditional Chinese methods of divination, formation, and finally...