الصفحة الرئيسية > Blossary: Divination
An article on different ways of foretelling the future.

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Scrying (also called seeing or peeping) is the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for ...

Domain: Anthropology; المجال/التخصص: Cultural anthropology

Augury is the practice from ancient Roman religion of interpreting omens from the observed flight of birds. When the individual, known as the augur, interpreted these signs, it is referred to as ...

Domain: Anthropology; المجال/التخصص: Cultural anthropology

Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of ...

Domain: Anthropology; المجال/التخصص: Cultural anthropology

Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. The method of employing sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for 'magical medicine', for removing negative entities, or for ...

Domain: Anthropology; المجال/التخصص: Cultural anthropology

A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball believed by some people to aid in the performance of clairvoyance. It is sometimes known as a shew stone (or show stone— "shew" is an archaic ...

Domain: Anthropology; المجال/التخصص: Cultural anthropology

Aeromancy uses cloud formations, wind currents and cosmological events such as comets to attempt to divine the future. There are sub-types of this practice which are as follows: austromancy (wind ...

Domain: Anthropology; المجال/التخصص: Cultural anthropology

Daphnomancy is a form of pyromancy whereby the future is predicted by burning bay laurel leaves. A loud crackling from the fire is a positive omen, whereas silence is a negative one.

Domain: Anthropology; المجال/التخصص: Cultural anthropology

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