10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPNOMANCY»
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The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
(See also Empyromancy) In John Healey's St. Augustine; of the citie of God, with
the learned comments of J. L. Vives (1616) there is mention that “divination was
done by smoke; capnomancy.” Unfortunately there is no detail of exactly how it ...
2
Demonologia; or, Natural knowledge revealed, by J.S.F.
From Theocritus it appears, that it was not only used to find out persons unknown,
but also to discover the secrets of those who were. CAPNOMANCY, Is a kind of
divination by means of smoke, used by the ancients in their sacrifices.
3
Companion for the Apprentice Wizard
Capnomancy. shapes in the smoke make faces, form images that speak their
meanings to my mind in the folds of blue and gray I see the future and the past:
all that passes through the air leaves a shiver of itself behind, a swirl of furling ...
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Faculty of the Grey School of Wizardry, 2006
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The principal roots of the Greek language
7 Cantharides] from KavBapos, a beetle, is derived cantharides ; Spanish flies or
beetles, of which blisters are made. 8 Capnomancy] of Kairvos, smoke, and
puureia, divination, is compounded capnomancy; divination performed by smohe
.
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Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult ...
CAPNOMANCY— Is a kind of divination by means of smoke, used by the
ancients in their sacrifices. The general rule was, when the smoke was thin and
light, and ascended straight up, it was a good omen ; if on the contrary, it was an
ill one.
Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans, 2003
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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
CAPNOMANCY, [from >«t,-;, mv.ikc, and piami*, divination,] a kind of divination
hy means of smoke, used by the ancients in their sacrifices. The general rule was
, when the smoke was thin, and light, and role straight up, it was a good o- men :
if ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1807
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...
CAPNOMANCY, a kind of divination by means of smoke, used by the ancients in
their sacrifices. The words come from шипч, smoke, and forums, divination. The
general rule was, when the smoke was thin and light, and rose straight up, it was
...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ...
CAPNICON, chimney money, a tax which the eastern emperor levied for smoke,
and which of consequence was due from all, even the poorest, who kept a fire. It
was first exacted by Nicephorus. CAPNOMANCY ; from nairvoc,, smoke, and ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
The general rule was, when the smoke was thin, and light, and rose straight up, it
was a good o- men : if the contrary, it was an ill one. There was also a species of
capnomancy, consisting in the observation of the smoke riling from poppy snd ...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and ...
CAPNOMANCY, a kind of divination by means of smoke, used by the ancients in
their sacrifices. The words come from xttirvcf smote, and fuintia divination. The
general rule was, when the smoke was thin and light, and rose straight up, it was
a ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, James Millar, 1810
