Divination
Cromniomancy - Predicting the Future with Onions
Ever since mankind became aware of the vulnerability of human life in the face of illness, misfortune, danger and natural disaster, it has been trying to take a peek into what the future holds. This led to the development of the art of divination, which in turn branched out into varied practices....
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Clairaudience - Predicting the Future by Hearing Voices and Sounds and ESP
Ever since mankind became concerned with thoughts of the future, it has devoted considerable time and energy to developing various practices with the help of which events and experiences can be foretold. Some of these kinds of divination depend on use of external objects like cards, crystal or even...
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Ceraunomancy - Predicting the Future by Observing Bolts of Lightning
Ever since humans were capable of rational thought and planning, the question of what would happen in the future has concerned them. In order to exert some measure of control over the future, mankind developed the art of divination whose purpose was not only to foretell what was going to happen but...
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Clidomancy - Predicting the Future with a Key
Fortune-telling is one of the most interesting of human pre-occupations. This can be as serious or as light-hearted, as brief or as detailed as one wants. However in ancient times when so much was beyond control of mankind, divination was a much more important part of human society. While many...
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Astraglomancy - Casting a Dice to See the Future
Since ages, mankind has wanted to know what the future holds for them and their loved ones. For this, the earliest humans looked about in nature and their surroundings for omens and portents of the future. Over time their efforts was formalized into the practice of divination, of which there were...
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Austromancy - Observing the Winds to Predict the Future
Human beings have always been eager to know what the future holds – either to prepare themselves better to meet any misfortune or simply to satisfy their curiosity. This urge eventually led to the development of divination which was not only used to foretell events that would come about but also to...
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Crystallomancy - Predicting the Future with Crystal Gazing
Certain objects whether because of their physical properties or because of the purpose for which they are used are often endowed with symbolic meaning. A mirror is an example of the former while a key is that of the latter. These objects acquire great significance in occult and magical practices as...
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Ceromancy - Predicting the Future from Observing a Burning Candle
Divination in some form or other has been practiced in all parts of the world. The desire to know what will happen in future is ingrained in human nature; but divination includes much more that fortune-telling – it is also a way to uncover hidden truth, occult knowledge or find answer to a...
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Chiromancy - Predicting the Future from the Palm of a Person
Foretelling the future has concerned mankind across time and place. This is as much a result of natural curiousity as a matter of self-preservation from future hostile agents. Thus human beings have expended considerable effort and time in developing ways to predict the future. While many of these...
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Cleromancy - Predicting the Future by Casting Lots
Since the beginning of time, mankind as invested considerable time and effort in finding out what the future holds. One result of this was the development of the art of divination according to which a seer uncovers some hidden knowledge, meaning or is able to predict future events. Cleromancy is...
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Automatic Writing Explained
The desire to connect to the spiritual world is a very ancient one. Apart from mainstream methods such as prayers and sacrifices, there have always existed on the fringes of the socially acceptable other methods such as séances and psychic readings. Automatic writing is one of the latter means by...
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Axiomancy - Predicting the Future with Axes, Hatchets and Saws
Ever since the beginning of time, humans have been concerned with what Tomorrow will bring – whether for practical reasons like ploughing and journeying or more significant ones related to births, illnesses and deaths. Gradually many cultures developed various forms of divination with the help of...
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Chirognomy - Predicting the Future by studying the Hand
The art of fortune-telling is as complex as it is varied. Very often it starts off by analyzing a person’s character and traits and then goes on identify the probable ups and downs he/she may face in life. Then again very often two different forms of fortune-telling may have very closely related...
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Critomancy - Predicting the Future with Flour, Dough or Cakes
Divination has been practiced ever since human beings were interested in predicting the future, or at least some of its aspects as relevant to their lives. While many of widespread forms of divination like cartomancy and chiromancy continue to exist even today, many of them have been lost to...
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Bibliomancy - Predicting the Future with the Bible and Other Holy Books
Across time and space, mankind has been curious to know that the future holds. Human beings either made use of objects and signs found in their natural surroundings to predict the future or employed objects with symbolic and esoteric value. Among the latter ways of divination, one of the most...
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Capnomancy - Predicting the Future with Smoke from a Fire
As long as human being have been conscious of the future, they have searched out methods to determine what is going to happen in the days to come. Very often they did it with things that were essential to life and one of these was fire. Capnomancy is a kind of divination which uses the smoke...
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Cartomancy - Predicting the Future with a Deck of Cards
One of the most common questions that has linked mankind across time and space is ‘what will happen in the future’. In order to find answers to such questions, human beings developed the art of divination which not only helped them to see into the future but more often provided answers to...
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Belomancy - Shooting Arrows to Predict the Future
What the future holds has always been a matter of curiosity and worry for mankind in all times and places. This led to the growth of a distinctive branch of study known as divination that observed signs and symbols and interpreted them as portent of the future. Belomancy is one such form of...
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