UncommonTypes of Divination

UncommonTypes of Divination

AEROMANCY
divination from the air and sky, particularly concentrating oncloud shapes, comets, and other phenomena not normally visible in the heavens.

ALECTRYOMANCY
is divination whereby a bird is allowed to pick corngrains from a circle of letters. A variation is to recite letters of thealphabet noting those at which a cock crows.

ALEUROMANCY
is divination using "fortune cookies"; answersto questions are rolled into balls of dough and once baked are chosen at random.

ALOMANCY
is divination by table salt.

ALPHITOMANCY
uses special cakes that are digestible by persons with aclear conscience but are unpleasant to others.

ANTHROPOMANCY
is the long-outlawed means of divination by humansacrifice.

APANTOMANCY
is divination through chance meetings with animals (e.g.,a black cat), birds, and other creatures. Mexico City is said to have beenfounded where Aztec soothsayers saw an eagle flying from a cactus carrying alive snake.

ARITHMANCY or ARITHMOMANCY
is an earlier form of NUMEROLOGYwhere divination is made through numbers and the number value of letters.

ASTRAGLOMANCY or ASTRAGYROMANCY
is a form of divination by dice wherethe faces of the dice bear numbers and letters.

AUGURY
is the general term for the art of divination and is chieflyapplied to interpretations of signs and omens.

AUSTROMANCY
is divination by the study of the winds.

AXIOMANCY
is divination through the observation of how an ax orhatchet quivers or points when driven into post.

BELOMANCY
is an ancient form of divination performed by tossing orbalancing arrows.

BIBLIOMANCY
involves divination by books.

BOTANOMANCY
is divination from burning tree branches and leaves.

BUMPOLOGY
strictly a modern term, a popular nickname for PHRENOLOGY

CAPNOMANCY
is the study of smoke rising from a fire.

CATOPTROMANCY
is an early form of crystal gazing that utilizes amirror turned to the moon to catch moonbeams.

CAUSIMOMANCY
is divination from behavior of objects placed in a fire.

CEPHALOMANCY
refers to divination with the skull or head of a donkeyor goat.

CERAUNOSCOPY
seeks to draw omens from the study of thunder andlightning.

CEROSCOPY, CEROMANCY
is a form of fortune telling in which melted wasis poured into cold water.

CHIROMANCY
is divination from the lines on people's hands.

CHIROGNOMY
is the study of the general hand formation.

CLEROMANCY
is divination by "casting lots", similar to dicebut with objects such as pebbles or sea shells.

CLIDOMANCY or CLEIDOMANCY
is divination using a dangling key. see RADIESTHESIA.

COSCINOMANCY
is divination using a hanging sieve. see RADIESTHESIA.

CRITOMANCY
is the study of barley cakes.

CROMNIOMANCY
is divination using onion sprouts.

CYCLOMANCY
is the practice of divination from a turning wheel.

DACTYLOMANCY
is an early form of RADIESTHESIA using a dangling ring.

DAPHNOMANCY
requires one to listen to laurel branches crackling in anopen fire.

DEMONOMANCY
is divination with the aid of demons.

DENDROMANCY
is divination with either oak or mistletoe.

GASTROMANCY
is an ancient form of ventriloquism whereby the voice islowered to a sepulchral tone and
prophetic utterances are delivered in a trancestate.

GELOSCOPY
is the divination from the tone of someone's laughter.

GENETHLIALOGY
is divination by the influence of the stars at birth.

GEOMANCY
is the study of figures on the ground and the influence ofthe Earth's "currents".

GRAPHOLOGY
is the analysis of character through handwriting.

GYROMANCY
is a divination procedure where a person walks in a circlemarked with letters until they become dizzy and stumble at different points,thus spelling out a prophesy.

HALOLMANCY see ALOMANCY

HARUSPICATION
is fortune-telling by means of inspecting the entrails ofanimals, as practiced by priests in ancient Rome.

HIEROMANCY or HIERSCOPY
is divination by observing object of ancientsacrifice.

HIPPOMANCY
is a form of divination from the stamping and neighing of horses.

HOROSCOPY
is the practice of casting of astrological horoscopes.

HYDROMANCY
is divination by water including the color, ebb and flow, orripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool.

ICHTHYOMANCY
is divination using fish.

LAMPADOMANCY
is divination using lights or torches.

LECANOMANCY
uses a basin of water for divination.

LIBANOMANCY
is the study of incense and its smoke.

LITHOMANCY
is divination using precious stones of various colors.

MARGARITOMANCY
is the procedure of using bouncing pearls.

METAGNOMY
is the divination using "visions" received in a trancestate.

METEOROMANCY
is divination from meteors.

METOPOSCOPY
is the reading of character using the lines if the forehead.

MOLEOSOPHY
is the study of moles and indicators of a person's character andfuture indications.

MOLYBDOMANCY
draws mystic inferences from the hissing of molten lead.

MYOMANCY
is the study of the prophetic meaning of behavior of rats and mice.

OINOMANCY
is divination using wine.

OMPHALOMANCY
IS counting the number of knots in the umbilical cord to predicthow many more children the
mother will have

ONEIROMANCY
is the interpretation of dreams and their prophetic nature.

ONOMANCY
is the study of the meaning of names.

ONOMANTICS
is the application of ONOMANCY applied to personal names,particularly in the sense of occult
interpretation.

ONYCHOMANCY
is the study of fingernails.

OOMANTIA and OOSCOPY
is the method of divination by eggs.

OPHIOMANCY
is divination from serpents.

ORNISCOPY and ORINITHOMANCY
is the study of omens associated with birds,particularly birds in flight. see
APANTOMANCY

OVOMANCY
is another type of egg divination.

PEGOMANCY
concerns itself with spring water and bubbling fountains and theomens contained therein.

PHRENOLOGY
is the long practiced study of head formations.

PHYLLORHODOMANCY
is a means of divination whereby one slaps a rose petalagainst the hand and judges the
favorability of the omen by the loudness of thesound.

PHYSIOGNOMY
is the study of character analysis through physical features.

PSYCHOGRAPHY
is a form of mysterious writing having a divinatory nature.

PYROMANCY and PYROSCOPY
are forms of divination by fire or flame, oftenassisted by substances thrown onto the flames.

RADIESTHESIA
is the general term for divination using a device such as adivining rod or pendulum. Other forms include "table tipping" whichwas practiced at the White House in the 19th century, the Ouija board, automaticwriting (or superconscious writing), and scrying.

RHABDOMANCY
is divination using a stick or wand. These methods wereforerunners of the divining rod.

RHAPSODOMANCY
is a means of divination using a book of poetry whereby thebook is opened at random and a passage read.

SIDEROMANCY
is the burning of straws with a hot iron, the resulting figureshaving divinatory properties.

SORTILEGE
is the casting of lots and the assessment of omens indicated.

SPODOMANCY
is divination using cinders or soot.

STICHOMANCY
is another form of throwing open a book and selecting a randompassage for the purpose of divination.

STOLISOMANCY
draws omens from the way people dress.

SYCOMANCY
is performed by writing messages on tree leaves; the slower theydry, the more favorable the omen. A modern variation is to write on slips ofpaper (always including one blank) and rolling them up. They are then held in astrainer over a boiling pot; the first to unroll will be answered.

TEPHRAMANCY
is divination by ashes obtained from the burning of tree bark.

TIROMANCY
is a type of divination using cheese.

XYLOMANCY
is divination from pieces of wood, either from their shape whencollected or their appearance while burning.