Floromancy


Floromancy or Anthomancy is based on the belief that flowers radiate different vibrations, reacting to a sympathetic or hostile environment. Interpretation includes their colors, petals, time of planting, and where planted. The "luck" attributed to finding a four-leaf clover falls into this category. Anthomancy in particular refers to the practice of plucking the petals of a flower uttering alternately "She/he loves me" for one petal, and "She/he loves me not" for the next.

Patricia Telesco has written a book entitled, The Victorian Flower Oracle, which makes use of the Victorian Language of Flowers as a tool for divination by transforming pressed flowers into cards or lots.

The term Floromancy is sometimes also used for the belief that flowers have the power to cure disease however.