sortilege

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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^†.    ... show more

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Roget 992: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy^†; demonology, demonomy^†, demonship^†; diablerie [Fr.], bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism^†; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism^†; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force^†; electrobiology^†, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.    divination etc. (prediction) 511; sortilege^†, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae^†; hocus-pocus etc. (deception) 545.    ... show more

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