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An article on different ways of foretelling the future.

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Alomancy is an ancient form of divination. Similar to many other forms of divination, the diviner casts salt crystals into the air and interprets the patterns as it falls to the ground or travels ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Botanomancy is the art of divination by burning branches of trees or herbs. The most common branches used are vervain and briar. The fire and the smoke are both read to indicate which course of ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Capnomancy signifies a method of divination using smoke. This is done by looking at the movements of the smoke after a fire has been made. A thin, straight plume of smoke is thought to indicate a ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Pyromancy (from Greek pyros, "fire," and manteia, "divination") is the art of divination by means of fire. Due to the importance of fire in society from the earliest of times, it is quite likely that ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Hydromancy is a method of divination by means of water, including the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool. In Renaissance magic, hydromancy was classified as one of ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Palmistry, or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy), is the claim of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading or chirology. The practice ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Favomancy is a form of divination that involves throwing beans on the ground and interpreting the patterns into which the beans fall; it is therefore a type of cleromancy. Various forms of favomancy ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

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