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FORTUNE-TELLING.

  • Psychomancy, by the soul, affections, or dispositions of men.
  • Anthropomancy, by the entrails of human beings.
  • Theriomancy, by beasts.
  • Ornithomancy, by birds.
  • Ichthyomancy, by fishes.
  • Botanomancy, by herbs.
  • Lithomancy, by stones.
  • Kleromancy, by lots.
  • Oneiromancy, by dreams.
  • Onomancy, by names.
  • Arithmancy, by numbers.
  • Logarithmancy, by logarithms.
  • Sternomancy, by the marks from the breast to the belly.
  • Gastromancy, by the sound of, or marks upon the belly.
  • Omphalomancy, by the navel.
  • Chiromancy, by the hands.
  • Podomancy, by the feet.
  • Onchyomancy, by the nails.
  • Cephaleonomancy, by asses’ heads.
  • Tephromancy, by ashes.
  • Kapnomancy, by smoke.
  • Knissomancy, by the burning of incense.
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