10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELOMANCY»
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The Tarot Court Cards: Archetypal Patterns of Relationship ...
2 While some ofhis theoriesabout playingcard origins have been disproved by
recent discoveries, hisbelief in arrow divination—belomancy —as a precursor to
card games,and by association the Tarot,isintriguing. The arrow was first usedby
...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Belomancy. Ben-Jochanan. enco between them." The fable is given by yKsop
and by Plutarch, whence Shakespeare introduces it in his Coriolanue, i, 1. The
belly has no ears. A hungry man will not listen to advice or arguments. The
Romans ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Demonologia; Or, Natural Knowledge Revealed: Being an Exposé ...
BELOMANCY, Is a method of divination by means of arrows, pmctised in the East
, but chiefly among the Arabians. Belomancy has been performed in difi'erent
manners : one was to mark a parcel of arrows, and to put eleven or more of them
...
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Demonologia; or, Natural knowledge revealed, by J.S.F.
Belomancy, Is a method of divination by means of arrows, practised in the East,
but chiefly among the Arabians. Belomancy has been performed in different
manners : one was to mark a parcel of arrows, and to put eleven or more of them
into a ...
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Encyclopædia britannica: or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, ...
BELOMANCY; Belomantia, a kind of divination by means of arrows, practised in
the east, but chiefly among the Atabians. The word is of Greek origin ;
compounded of ;3i*»« arrow, and p-a-irna divi- xation. Belomancy has been
performed in ...
Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, 1797
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The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
The Saturday Review of Science of 1883 refers to “divining arrows, rods, or the
knotched (sic) sticks of belomancy.” The arrows could be used in much the same
way as the sticks of rhabdomancy. They could be loosely stuck into the ground, ...
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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism
Belomancy Beelzebub: A demon. He is first mentioned as a Phoenician god in II
Kings 1. His name probably derives from Ugaritic “Lord Baal,” though it is often
translated as “Lord of Flies.” By Greco-Roman times he is a demon lord and he is
...
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The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ...
BELOAR, a name given by some to a stone, otherwise called WlDUl-US.
BELOMANCY, BELOMANTiA, a kind of divination by means of arrows, practised
in the East, but chiefly among the Arabians, among whom it continued till
Mahometanism ...
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The Dictionary of the Esoteric: 3000 Entries on the Mystical ...
Belomancy Divination by analyzing the path of arrows in flight. Belphegor A
demon who appears in the form of a woman, and whose name derives from a
form of Baal, worshipped by the Moabites on Mount Phegor. Belphegor was a
demon of ...
Belomancy is an ancient practice, and is probably that which Ezekiel mentions,
chap. xxi. v. 21 : at least St Jerome understands it so, and observes that the
practice was frequent among the Assyrians and Babylonians. Something like it is
also ...
Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Botham Howitt, 1854
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELOMANCY»
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Every Misspelled Word in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee
belomancy (belemancy): A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks ... «Vulture, May 13»
'Scherzo' makes Irvine teen OC spelling bee champ
... coach preparing for the event) was hit with the word "belomancy" – divination by using arrows – and couldn't come up with the right spelling. «OCRegister, Mar 13»
