Psychism and Divination

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 and Capnomancy.
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)

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

Axiomancy
Belomancy
Rhabdomancy

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)


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