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A man practicing Nggam with a crab A crab in a divination pot. Nggam ([ŋgam]) is a type of divination found among many groups in western Cameroon.Among the best documented is its practice by the Mambila people of Cameroon and Nigeria, in which the actions of spiders or crabs are interpreted by the diviner.
The first recorded mention of tyromancy is believed to be in Oneirocritica, a 2nd-century AD treatise on dream interpretation by Greek diviner Artemidorus of Daldis. [1] [2] He claimed it to be one of the most unreliable forms of divination, writing that "the truth is spoken by sacrificers and bird-diviners and astrologers and observers of wonders and dream diviners and liver-examiners alone".
Futomani is a traditional Shinto system of divination. Practitioners attempt to foresee future events by interpreting the pattern of cracks made by heating the shoulder-blade of a stag . [ 1 ] The practice is thought to predate the introduction of divination by tortoiseshell, which was imported from China; archaeological evidence suggests it ...
domino divination: by dominoes; favomancy / ˈ f æ v oʊ m æ n s i /: by beans (Latin faba, ' bean ' + Greek manteía, ' prophecy ') Ogham casting: by Ogham letters; runecasting/runic divination; cometomancy / k oʊ ˈ m ɛ t oʊ m æ n s i /: by comet tails (Greek komētēs, ' comet ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') colormancy/coloromancy: by ...
The style of astragalomancy using numerical trigrams was widespread, and evidence of such is found in Turkish, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Sogdian divination texts [20] from the sixth century through to the 10th century. One particular text is called the Divination of Maheśvara, found on the silk road frontier of Dunhuang. [21]
Tie Ban Shen Shu contains 12,000 individual texts, which are applied to each individual divination, through a series of twelve different procedures. The procedures for arriving at the correct texts are based on the Four Pillars (Ba Zi), which include the ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earth Branches, numerology, the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching ...
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Rhabdomancy is a divination technique which involves the use of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like.. One method of rhabdomancy was setting a number of staffs on end and observing where they fall, to divine the direction one should travel, or to find answers to certain questions.