- divining by means or way of...

  • abacomancy - patterns in dust or cremation ashes
  • aeromancy - state of the air or weather
  • alectryomancy - a cock placed by corn covered letters that are read in order of kernels eaten
  • anthropomancy - entrails of dead or dying humans, usually young virgin girls
  • arimancy - numbers
  • astragalomancy - ankle bones (I'm not sure why this one seems extra weird to me)
  • augury - flight patterns of birds
  • axinomancy - ax or hatchet
  • belomancy - arrows
  • bibliomancy - books, especially the bible
  • cartomancy - playing cards
  • catoptromancy - gazing into mirrors or crystal balls
  • cheiromancy - palm reading
  • chirography - handwriting analysis
  • cleromancy - casting lots
  • clidomancy - keys
  • conchomancy - seashells
  • cromnyomancy - onion sprouts
  • gastromancy - stomach growling as sounds from the dead (origin of ventriloquism)
  • gyromancy - walking a circle until dizzy and fate determined by where they fall (who thinks this shit up?)
  • halomancy - salt
  • haruspicies - animal livers
  • ichnomancy - footprints
  • ichthyomancy - fish guts
  • kau cim - shaken bamboo sticks
  • kephalonomancy - boiled donkey head on burning coals or lighted carbon poured into a baked goat head (Seriously?!)
  • keraunomancy - thunder and lightning
  • knissomancy - incense burning
  • lampadomancy - flame of a torch
  • lecanomancy - looking into a water basin
  • libanomancy - frankincense
  • mazomancy - paying attention to a nursing baby
  • metopomancy - lines in the forehead
  • oneiromancy - dream interpretation
  • onomatomancy - names
  • ornithomancy - actions of birds
  • palmistry - duh, palms
  • phyllorhodomancy - rose petals
  • psychognomy - based on phrenology
  • retromancy - looking over one's shoulder
  • rhabdomancy - rod, magical wand, water dining, or dowsing
  • rumpology - butts, invented by Sylvester Stallone's mom Jackie ha ha!
  • scapulimancy - charred or cracked shoulder bones, usually sheep
  • sciomancy - reference to spirits of the dead or shapes of shadows
  • selenomancy - the moon
  • sideromancy - the stars
  • spatilomancy - observing animal droppings
  • spodomancy - ashes
  • stichomancy - random lines in books
  • taromancy - tarot cards
  • tasseography - reading tea leaves
  • xenomancy - studying the first stranger that appears
  • ydromancy - water
  • zygomancy - weights
apr 30 2012 ∞
may 18 2013 +