10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OMOPLATOSCOPY»
Discover the use of
omoplatoscopy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
omoplatoscopy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
The Sydenham (New) Society's Lexicon of medicine and allied sciences of 1892
defines it: “Omoplatoscopy, the name given to a mode of divination formerly
practiced by some tribes of (Native) American Indians, founded on the direction of
the ...
2
The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey through China, ...
SCAPULAMANCY. OR. OMOPLATOSCOPY. T HE following, taken from G.
Klemm's “Allgemeine Culturgeschichte der Menschheit,” III, pp. 200, 201,
whohimselfquotesfromPallas's “Nachriehten,” II, p. 350, agrees exactly with what
information I ...
3
The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, ...
IV DIVINATION BY 8HOULDEK- BLADES SCAPULAMANCY OB
OMOPLATOSCOPY THE following, taken from G. Klemm's •' Allgemeine Cultur-
geschichte der Menschheit," III, pp. 200, 201, who himself quotes from Pallas's "
Nachrichten," II, ...
William Woodville Rockhill, 1988
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
... the shoulder(s) bare. omoplatoscopy. omostegite. L humerus: shoulder. F
humerus: bone of upper arm; because it causes a tingling sensation when struck
at the elbow, it is punningly called the funny bone. acromion. Iniomi: order of
fishes.
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009
5
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of ...
... colour if the porcupine-hunt would be successful.5 The principal art of this kind
is divination by a shoulder-blade, technically called scapulimancy or
omoplatoscopy. This is especially found in vogue in Tartary, where it is ancient,
and whence ...
Edward Burnett Tylor, 1871
6
Dictionary of the Occult
... water, or a crystal. Omoplatoscopy (also known as Scapulomancy): A mantic
performance by means of the shoulder-blade of a sacrificed animal heated over a
fire. ovomancy Omphalomancy: Divination by the navel. On: A magic word, o ...
7
Animals, Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in ...
The haruspices interpreted the entrails, and others inspected the liver (
hepatoscopy) or sometimes also their shoulder blades (omoplatoscopy). In
addition to divinatory practices connected with sacrificed animals, the Romans
based part of ...
Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, 2006
8
The Demon Dictionary Volume One: Know Your Enemy. Learn His ...
... of wine. oinomancy Divination by means of wine. ololygmancy Divination by
the howling of dogs. omphalomancy Divination by the navel. omoplatoscopy
Divination by observing the shoulder blade of a sacrificed animal heated over a
fire.
... of wine. oinomancy Divination by means of wine. ololygmancy Divination by
the howling of dogs. omphalomancy Divination by the navel. omoplatoscopy
Divination by observing the shoulder blade of a sacrificed animal heated over a
fire.
10
The A to Z of Prophets in Islam and Judaism
... spots and birthmarks, chiromancy, omoplatoscopy, observation of footprints,
divination by morphoscopic and genealogical lines, observation of the ground,
ornithomancy, geomancy, rhapsodomancy, oneiromancy, cleromancy,
neromancy, ...
Scott B. Noegel, Brannon M. Wheeler, 2010
