Man-made or "voluntary" phenomena is defined as being deliberately produced for the sole purpose of soothsaying, and includes such acts as necromancy, pouring oil into a basin of water to observe the formation of bubbles and rings in the receptacle, shooting arrows, casting lots, reading tea leaves or coffee grounds and numerous other acts. Dactylomancy is a Greek term which translates as ‘finger divination.’ Traditionally, Dactylomancy is practiced using a ring. However, technically, any form of divination which uses the finger could count as Dactylomancy, but most people know Dactylomancy as the type of divination which uses rings.

Floromancy for receiving guidance whilst we are gardening, or tending to our kitchen herbs and home plants. Pieces of oracle bone engraved with early Chinese writing from the Shang dynasty, collection of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University / BabelStone, Wikimedia // CC BY-SA 3.0 Council of Trullo - Apostolic Confraternity Seminary". apostolicconfraternityseminary.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Necromancy is a method of divination that uses the spirits of the dead. Because there is usually some ritual component involved, Necromancy is also classed as a type of magic or witchcraft. Brontomancy means divination using thunder. Brontomancy is pretty much a cross between divination using signs (Apantomancy), divination using the weather (Aeromancy), and divination using sound (Cledonism). According to diviners, to hear the sound of thunder is a message of approval from the gods. CapnomancyXylomancy is a type of divination which involves burning wood. There are two main methods of practicing Xylomancy; creating a fire or burning wood. Because of its accessibility, Xylomancy can be easily practiced in modern times. Governments have at times acted with great severity; Constantius decreed the penalty of death for diviners. The authorities may have feared that some would-be prophets might endeavor to fulfill forcibly their predictions about the death of sovereigns. When the tribes from the North swept down over the old Roman Empire and entered the Church, it was only to be expected that some of their lesser superstitions should survive. Lithomancy for protection in those moments you intuitively reach for your obsidian, lunar scrying for emotional healing when you’re struggling and feel a pull towards angelite, and bring in crystals to tarot spreads to provide additional clarity in a reading like with selenite.

If you wish to receive a prophecy from a Fortune Cookie, they are easy enough to obtain; they are typically sold in Chinese restaurants and are popular in the West. Geomancy The Iching is the most well-known Chinese form of divination in the West. The method involves throwing coins multiple times, taking note of how they land, and interpreting the pattern created based on the Book of Changes. Divination is universally concerned with practical problems, private or public, and seeks information upon which practical decisions can be made; but the source of such information is not conceived as mundane, and the technique of getting it is necessarily fanciful. The mantic (divinatory) arts are many, and a broad understanding can emerge only from a survey of actual practices in various cultural settings. A short definition, however, may be offered as a preliminary guide: divination is the effort to gain information of a mundane sort by means conceived of as transcending the mundane.

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In Mali, Dogon Abacomancer’s read the future in the earth. They may take a fox walking over certain parts of the floor to be significant. A grid would be divided over the affected area, and the movement of the animal interpreted. There are historical references to Necromancy as a ritual practice. In Homer’s Odyssey, after learning spells from the sorceress Circe, Odysseus raises the spirits of the dead. Although condoned in places, Necromancy is practiced in the Bible when King Saul enlists the so-called Witch of Endor to perform a ritual to conjure the spirit of Samuel. Nephomancy