10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARUSPICATION»
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haruspication in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
haruspication and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, ...
Haruspication The auspices were taken. Either that day and on that site, or, if the
gods were not agreeable, on another, better site and more favourable day, a
sacrifice was offered.69 The entrails, particularly the liver and perhaps the
intestines ...
2
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
200 Hanon-Tramp ...... 200 Hansen (Mr. of Copenhagen) . . 200 Hantu Penyardin
200 Hantu Pusaka ...... 200 Hare (Dr.). ....... 200 Harodim 200 Harris (Thomas
Lake) .... 200 Haruspication ...... 201 Hasidim 201 Hasona 201 Hassan Sabah
201 ...
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The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
Aruspiciny, or haruspication, is divining from the entrails of animals, especially
from the liver. (The inspection of entrails from human victims of sacrifice is
anthropomancy.) An extant Etruscan bronze of the fifth century BCE shows a
priest ...
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How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality
We can understand superstition and its relation to belief in the power of chance
by comparing haruspication and sortilege. Haruspication refers to the belief,
practiced in ancient Rome, that a specially qualified priest could foretell the future
by ...
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Primitive Culture Resaerches Into the Developement of ...
... where the livers of the victims were found folded, and the diviners prophesied
him accordingly a doubled empire.2 Since then, haruspication has died out more
completely than almost any magical rite, yet even now a. characteristic relic of it ...
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Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of ...
... where the livers of the victims were found folded, and the diviners prophesied
him accordingly a doubled empire.3 Since then, haruspication has died out more
completely than almost any magical rite, yet even now a characteristic relic of it ...
Edward Burnett Tylor,
1871
7
Brotherhood of the Gods
And that's what's called 'haruspication.' You know a kind of divination, it comes
from the Latin and means to spy something out. Cops do it all the time...and so do
, er, private investigators, buddy. So in some respects, you'll have to admit that ...
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The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, ...
1901; O. A. W. Dilke,'The Roman Land Surveyors', David and Charles, Newton
Abbot, 1971 Haruspication The auspices were taken. Either that dayand onthat
site, or, if the gods were not agreeable, on another, better site and more
favourable ...
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The Stress of Her Regard
“No,” she said. “Originally it was for haruspication.” She leaned against the wall
next to him and stared into the brightening sky. The white of her eye was blotted
with bright red. “A doctor told me that word, when he figured out why I was a
nurse.
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Where Were You Before The Tree of Life? Volume 3
In antiquity, common artificial or inductive means of divination were the casting of
lots; haruspication, the inspection of animal entrails; and ornithomancy, the study
of the activity of birds. In ancient Rome, augurs or priests performed their ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARUSPICATION»
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haruspication is used in the context of the following news items.
The Caretaker Audience Reaction & Poll Results
... foray on the payroll at Coal Hill School, then once again we turn to overnight viewing figures, poll results, AI scores and Haruspication. «Doctor Who UK Webzine, Oct 14»
Fortune-Telling: Fact, Fiction & Fantasy
Animal lovers won't be enthusiastic about it, but one popular method of fortune-telling practiced in ancient times called haruspication required ... «LiveScience.com, Apr 13»
Our Lizard-Brain Politics
Indeed, millions of dollars' worth of media punditry was expended not on evaluating the candidates' empirical claims, but on haruspication of ... «The Nation., Oct 12»
A Letter From New Orleans: Cutting Loose
I bet the entire amount as a solitary unit of haruspication. It was the right thing to do -- spread the entrails of the day and look for a message. I knew that my ... «Digital Journalist, May 07»