rhabdomancy
noun
1 rhabdomancy
Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod.
synonyms: dowse, dowsing.
Dutch: wichelroeden
Polish: różdżkarstwo, radiestezja
phrase
Roget 511:
coming events cast their shadows before"
[Campbell];
dicamus bona verba [Lat.];
there buds the promise of celestial worth"
[Young].
[Divination: list]
by oracles,
Theomancy†;
by the Bible,
Bibliomancy;
by ghosts,
Psychomancy†;
by crystal gazing,
Crystallomancy†;
by shadows or manes,
Sciomancy;
by appearances in the air,
Aeromancy†,
Chaomancy†;
by the stars at birth,
Genethliacs;
by meteors,
Meteoromancy†;
by winds,
Austromancy†;
by sacrificial appearances,
Aruspicy,
Haruspicy†,
Hieromancy†,
Hieroscopy†;
by the entrails of animals sacrificed,
Extispicy†,
Hieromancy†;
by the entrails of a human sacrifice,
Anthropomancy†;
by the entrails of fishes,
Ichthyomancy†;
by sacrificial fire,
Pyromancy†;
by red-hot iron,
Sideromancy†;
by smoke from the altar,
Capnomancy†;
by mice,
Myomancy†;
by birds,
Orniscopy†,
Ornithomancy†;
by a cock picking up grains,
Alectryomancy,
Alectromancy†;
by fishes,
Ophiomancy†;
by herbs,
Botanomancy†;
by water,
Hydromancy†;
by fountains,
Pegomancy†;
by a wand,
Rhabdomancy;
by dough of cakes,
Crithomancy†;
by meal,
Aleuromancy†,
Alphitomancy†;
by salt,
Halomancy†;
by dice,
Cleromancy†;
by arrows,
Belomancy†;
by a balanced hatchet,
Axinomancy†;
by a balanced sieve,
Coscinomancy†;
by a suspended ring,
Dactyliomancy†;
by dots made at random on paper,
Geomancy†;
by precious stones,
Lithomancy†;
by pebbles,
Pessomancy†;
by pebbles drawn from a heap,
Psephomancy†;
by mirrors,
Catoptromancy†;
by writings in ashes,
Tephramancy†;
by dreams,
Oneiromancy†;
by the hand,
Palmistry,
Chiromancy;
by nails reflecting the sun's rays,
Onychomancy†;
by finger rings,
Dactylomancy†;
by numbers,
Arithmancy†;
by drawing lots,
Sortilege†;
by passages in books,
Stichomancy†;
by the letters forming the name of the person,
Onomancy†,
Nomancy;
by the features,
Anthroposcopy†;
by the mode of laughing,
Geloscopy†;
by ventriloquism,
Gastromancy†;
by walking in a circle,
Gyromancy†;
by dropping melted wax into water,
Ceromancy†;
by currents,
Bletonism;
by the color and peculiarities of wine,
Oenomancy†.
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