Post by wren on Aug 20, 2006 15:05:50 GMT -5
" John Gaul originally published this list from Mysmantia in 1652 and I've taken it from The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology by Rossell Hope Robbins, where it was quoted...
Taken from The Druid's Alphabet by Robert Lee Ellison
*Note from Ellison - At the time this was originally published, it was believed that the scriptures had been definitively translated and that God wouldn't tell men their future.
~Aeromancy - or divining by the air.
~Alectryomancy - by cocks or poultry.
~Alphitomancy - by meal, flour or bran.
~Antinopomancy - by the entrails of women and children.
~Arithmancy - by numbers.
~Astragalomancy - by dice.
~Axinomancy - by saws.
~Botanomancy - by herbs.
~Capnomancy - by smoke.
~Carromancy - by melting of wax.
~Catoxtromancy - by looking glass.
~Cattabomancy - by vessels of brass or other metal.
~Cephalonomancy - by boiling of an ass's head.
~Cartomancy - by writing in papers.
~Chiromancy - by the hands.
~Chrystallomancy - by glasses.
~Cleromancy - by lots
~Coscinomancy - by sieves.
~Crithomancy - by grain or corn.
~Dactylomancy - by rings.
~Demonomancy - by the suggestion of evil demons or devils.
~Gastromancy - by the sound of or signs upon the belly.
~Geomancy - by the earth.
~Gyromancy - by rounds or circles.
~Hydromancy - by water.
~Icthyomancy - by fishes.
~Idolomancy - by idols, images, figures.
~Lampadomancy - by candles and lamps.
~Lecanomancy - by a basin of water.
~Lithomancy - by stones.
~Livanomancy - by the burning of frankincense.
~Logarithmancy - by logarithms.
~Macharomancy - by knives or swords.
~Oinomancy - by wine.
~Omphilomancy - by the navel.
~Oniromancy - by dreams.
~Onomatomancy - by names.
~Onychomancy - by the nails.
~Ornithomancy - by birds.
~Podomancy - by the feet.
~Psychomancy - by men's soul's, affections, wills, religious or moral dispositions.
~Pyromancy - by fire.
~Roadomancy - by the stars.
~Sciomancy - by shadows.
~Spatalamancy - by skins, bones or excrements.
~Stareomancy - or diving by the elements.
~Sternomancy - from the breast to the belly.
~Sycomancy - by figs.
~Theomancy - pretending to divine by the revelation of the Spirit and by the Scriptures or Word of God.*
~Theriomancy - by beasts.
~Tuphramancy - by ashes.
~Tyromancy - by the coagulation of cheese.
~Nagomancy or Necromancy - by inspecting, consulting and divining by, with, or from the dead."
Taken from The Druid's Alphabet by Robert Lee Ellison
*Note from Ellison - At the time this was originally published, it was believed that the scriptures had been definitively translated and that God wouldn't tell men their future.