10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAMPADOMANCY»
Discover the use of
lampadomancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lampadomancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
While John Gaule, in The Magastromancer: or the magicaU-astrologicaU-diviner
posed and puzzled (1652), says simply: "Lampadomancy (divining) by candles or
lamps," Sydenham (New) Society Publications: Lexicon of medicine and allied ...
2
Dreaming the future: the fantastic story of prediction
See also catoptro- mancy. H KATOPTROMANCY is divination with mirrors. See
catoptrotnancy. TH, KERIOMANCY (after the Greek keri or candle; also called "
candle prophecy" or lampadomancy) is divination by interpreting visions using
the ...
Clifford A. Pickover, 2001
3
Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating ...
... or Branne ; Crit/tonza/Icy, by Grain or Corn; Alectromancy, by Cocks or Pullen ;
Gyromancy, by Rounds or Circles; Lampadomancy, by Candles and Lamps ; and
in one word for all, 1\7Ug07Il£lIIQI/, or 1Ve cromancy, by inspecting, consulting, ...
Geeraert Brandt, Henry Ellis, 1813
4
The English Novelist; a Collection of Tales by the Most ...
... I-lydromaney— Theomancy— Psychomancy— Botonomancy— Oneicrornancy
- Onomatomancy—Auromoney —Suphromancy— Canomancy— Cartomancy—
Astragnlomancy - Crithomancy — Giromancy— Lampadomancy; with characts ...
... by dice, oino- mancy, by wine, sycomancy, by figs, typomancy, by the
coagulation of cheese, alphitomancy, by flour or bran, crithomancy, by grain or
corn, alectromancy, by cocks and hens, gyromancy, by rounds and circles,
lampadomancy, ...
Lucius Manlius Sargent, 1856
The practice of Caodaism involves séances, ouija boards, the basket-with-beak
technique, seer stones, lampadomancy, lecanomancy, libanomancy,
cromniomancy, crithomancy, and the use of a large, vibrating egg. Caodaists are
also ...
7
The Book Of Ordinary Oracles: Use Pocket Change, Popsicle ...
... entrails or livers (haruspicy or hepatoscopy), in water (hydromancy) or fish (
ichthyomancy), in the flame of a candle (lampadomancy) or in oil on water (
leconomancy), in stones or pearls (lithomancy or margaritomancy), or in fire (
pyromancy).
8
Divination Through the Ages
... animals Geomancy — earth movement Gyromancy — whirling persons
Hepatoscopy — liver of animals Hippomancy — horses Hydromancy — water
Lampadomancy — flicking torches Lecanomancy — oil on water Libanomancy —
incense ...
Ellen Wallace Douglas, 2012
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The Watkins Dictionary of Magic: Over 3000 Entries on the ...
Symbolically, the festival represents fulfilment – the reaping of all that has been
sown. See also Sabbats, Greater. Lampadomancy A form of divination using the
flame of a lamp or torch. The actions and movements of the flame are interpreted
...
Nevill Drury, Nevill Drury Author, 2011
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A Manual of Cartomancy: Fortune-Telling and Occult Divination
LAMPADOMANCY. — The extraction of prognostics from the form, colour and
various movements in the light of a lamp. Sparks from the wick meant news.
LIBANOMANCY. — Divination by incense, accompanied by prayers relative to
the ...
