August 9, 2008
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Psychism and Divination
Figured I’d post my collection of divination. It’s far from complete, but I tried to organize them by type and some have more extensive information in links (mostly on my website, but some elsewhere). Enjoy!
Since the dawn of humanity, we have sought
knowledge of the future. Techniques have been discovered and lost.
There are several branches of psychism which are still in common
practice: Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Psychometry, etc. These have
given rise to many different forms of divination.
Your Future written in Stone
Cleromancy (figures or shapes made by pebbles, sea shells, or peas)
Geomancy (figures on the ground and Earth’s movements)
Lithomancy (precious stones)
Molybdomancy or Ceromancy (molten lead or tin)Your Future in the Skies
Astrology, includes Roadomancy, or Astromancy (the sky and movement of the stars and planets), and sometimes Meteoromancy
Astrometeorology (weather patterns)
Austromancy (wind)
Ceraunoscopy or Ceraunscopy and Brontoscopy (lightning and thunder)
Chaomancy (clouds)Divination through flame
Botanomancy (burning branches and leaves)
Capnomancy (smoke of vervain or other sacred plants)
Causimomancy (behavior of objects placed in fire)
Daphnomancy (burning of a laurel branch)
Lampadomancy (flame of a candle or lamp)
Libanomancy (incense and prayers) Similar practices include Thurifumia
Pyromancy (sacrificial fire)
Pyroscopy (burn stains left on light surface)
Scapulomancy (shoulder blade)
Sideromancy (marks of straws burned with hot metal)
Spodomancy (ashes from sacrifices)
Tephramancy (tree bark ashes)
Xylomancy (dry wood found or sticks of firewood burning)
and Capnomancy.Looking for answers in the bottom of a cup
Aeromancy or Nephelomancy (ripples in water)
Hydromancy (any movement of water)
Lecanomancy (sound or image made by something falling in water)
Pegomancy (water of a fountain)Flora & Fauna
Alectromancy or Alectryomancy (black hen)
Apantomancy (animal meeting)
Augury (birds)
Cephalomancy or cephaleonomancy (skull of donkey or goat)
Cromniomancy (onion)
Dendromancy (oak and mistletoe)
Entomancy (animal behavior)
Floromancy (flowers)
Hepatoscopy or Haruspication (sheep liver)
Hieroscopy or Hieromancy (sacrificial victim)
Hippomancy (horses)
Ichthyomancy (fish)
Margaritomancy (pearls)
Myomancy (rats, mice)
Ophiomancy (serpents)
Ornithomancy (bird song)
Phyllorhodomancy (rose leaves or petals)
Sycomancy (leaves)Divination by Food
Aleuromancy (the origins of the fortune cookie)
Alomancy (patterns in salt)
Coscinomancy (seive)
Crithomancy or Critomancy (gritty item or barley cakes on flat surface)
Oinomancy or Oenomancy (wine)
Ooscopy, Oomantia, or Oomancy (eggs)
Tasseography or Tasseomancy (tea leaves or coffee grounds)
Tiromancy (cheese)Letters & Numbers
Bibliomancy or
Stichomancy (word or verse from book)
Cyclomancy (wheels)
Graphology (handwriting)
Gyromancy (spinning)
Numerology, Authmancy or Arithmancy (numbers)
see also, the Kabbalah
Onomamancy (names)
Psychography (writing)
Rhapsodomancy (poetry)
Cledonismancy or cledonomancy (chance words)Inside and Out
Amniomancy (baby’s caul)
Anthropomancy (human entrails)
Chiromancy (palmistry) (palm and fingers), Onychomancy, Onimancy or Onycomancy (human fingernails), and Chirognomy (shape of hand)
Geloscopy (person’s laugh)
Metoposcopy (forehead lines)
Moleosophy divination by moles on the body, see also moles
Oculomancy (eyes)
Omphalomancy
Oneiromancy or Oniromancy (dreams)
Physiognomy or Anthroposomancy (person’s features or form)
Phrenology (bumps on the head)
Stolisomancy (attire)Divination with Weapons
Divination of criminal acts
Alphitomancy (innocence or guilt through barley bread)
Cleidomancy or Clidomancy (book and key used to find thief or murderer)Divination with Spirits
Demonomancy (demons)
Metagnomy (visions in trance)
Necromancy (the dead)
Sciomancy (channelling)Divination by chance
Astragolomancy or Astragyromancy (dice, dominoes, i-ching coins)
Cartomancy (cards, tarot)
Kleromancy, Cleromancy, or
Sortilege (lots)
Ragalomancy (knucklebones) (thrown shapes)
Dowsing
Dactylomancy (rings)
Dowsing (pendulum or rod used to find something)
Radiesthesia (pendulum)
Scrying
Catoptromancy (mirror and moon)
Crystalomancy or Crystallography (scrying using a crystal or other reflective surfaces)
August 9th
The Ghanta Karna in late July or early August is a Nepalese festival celebrating the defeat of a demon guilty of such endless acts of slaughter and depravity that its mouth was filled with blood. In answer to the prayers of the suffering people, one Hindu god turned itself into a taunting frog who teased the demon into chasing it down a well. Villages stoned the trapped monster to death and burned the remains. Children wait at crossroads to collect money from passerby in order to raise funds to create effigies of the demon to be paraded through the town before being burned. A man of the untouchable caste takes on the persona of the demon and demands alms. Refusal to pay brings disease and bad luck. After the celebration, people go home quickly to avoid meeting the vengeful spirit of the dead demon.
Comments (2)
scary stuff, so have you ever been able to see your own future though any of these above means?
Aniomancy–OMG! Yuckity-yuck-yuck. I’ve never heard of that one before, and it sounds terrible. Just the baby’s caul part alone is enough to make me freak out, not to mention the sacrifice part.