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
- 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
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