10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AXINOMANCY»
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Axinomancy is one of several obscure methods of divination using an axe, hatchet, or a saw.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
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The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
According to Sir Thomas Urquhart (The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis
Rabelais, London, 1693): “To have the truth ... disclosed ... by axinomancy: we
want only a hatchet and a jet-stone to be laid together upon a fire of hot embers.
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zeus. a study in ancient religion. volume 2, part 1.
Axinomancy, strictly so called, has varied somewhat in its modus operandi. A
hatchet suspended by a cord was used to detect criminals or discover secrets: it
twisted and turned in answer to relevant questions2. Again, a hatchet poised in ...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Avesta. Axinomancy. phurous and mephitic vapours caused any bird that
attempted to fly over it to fall into its waters. Latin mythology placed the entrance
to the infernal regions near it ; hence Virgil's lines : — Facllls decensua Aremo
Nodes ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Demonologia; Or, Natural Knowledge Revealed: Being an Exposé ...
... the Sortes Praenestinse, Virgilianee, and Homericee; with numerous others,
the principal species and names of which are as follows :— AXINOMANCY, Was
an ancient species of divination or method of foretelling future events by means
of ...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge
The Pythagorean doctrine is noticed by Ennemoser, who quotes some interesting
passages from Plato on this subject. [E. E.] AXINOMANCY Was performed by
balancing an axe on an upright stake, and the names of suspected persons
being ...
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Lexicography Then and Now: Selected Essays
... ..169 axillary (Blount, 1656) .................. ..169 axinomancy (Blount, 1656) ............
..169 axinomancy (Cockeram, 1623) ........ ..167 axiom (Wilkins, 1668) .................. ..
l71 axiome (Cawdrey, 1604) ................ ..166 axis (Blount, 1656) ...
Ladislav Zgusta, Fredric F.M. Dolezal, Thomas B.I. Creamer, 2006
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Demonologia; or, Natural knowledge revealed, by J.S.F.
... fire, the Sortes Praenestinae, Virgilianae, and Homericae ; with numerous
others, the principal species and names of which are as follows : — Axinomancy,
Was an ancient species of divination or method of foretelling future events by
means ...
Axinomancy This method was employed for the discovery of hidden treasures
and the detection of criminals. In the first case the method is of a singularly
fatuous kind. A round agate must be carefully balanced on the edge of a red-hot
hatchet.
Arthur Edward Waite, 2013
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Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... one of the ancient systems of prophecy. austromancy, divination by observing
winds, especially the south winds, with special significance attached to their
direction and intensity. axhead, axinomancy axinomancy, divination with an
axhead ...
