10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCAPULOMANCY»
Discover the use of
scapulomancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
scapulomancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
J. G. D. Clark, in World Prehistory (1961), said “It will be recalled that the practice
of scapulomancy . . . can be traced back to the 'Neolithic' Lung-shan culture.”
William MacLeod, writing under the pseudonym of “Theophilus Insu- lanus,” in
his ...
2
The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan ...
Despite official and ecclesiastical condemnation, however, the particular practice
of scapulomancy appeared in Greece early in the Christian era. The Byzantine
writer Michael Psellos devoted a long descriptive passage to it, and a lengthy ...
At Karakorum, Mangu Kaan practiced the scapulomancy of his diviners, while at
the same time, before undertaking the conquest of Yunnan and southern China,
he built a monumental stupa which was probably intended to further the success
...
4
Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations
Nanaghat 236–237 Satanikota 298 western satraps 374 Satingpra 299
scapulomancy 299 scholarship. See also historical documents/scholarship W. G.
Aston 28 Étienne Aymonier 30 Henry Colebrook 84 Dong Zhongshu 95–96 Dong
Zuobin ...
5
Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions: Volume 2: The Corpus
scapulae were used for apyromantic scapulomancy. Karageorghis interprets this
instrument as a metric stick, Karageorghis and Demas (1985) p. 335, no. 8, or as
a possible instrument 'used to teach arithmetic, or to mark points in a game' ...
6
Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... an animal (especially a sheep). scapulomancy, divination from charred or
cracked shoulder blades of an animal that had been burned in sacrifice.
scarpomancy, reading character by studying a person's old shoes. scatomancy,
divination by ...
The Naskapi, who hunt caribou on the Labrador Peninsula, use a form of
divination called scapulomancy. In this divination ritual, a shoulder blade (
scapula) of a caribou or other animal is scorched by fire. The scorched bone is
used as a map ...
Serena Nanda, Richard Warms, 2013
8
Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural ...
48), making the ethnographer 9 Herzfeld's analysis of scapulomancy as a
semiotics of prevalent concerns is analo- guous to my definition of nostalgia as
an interpretation of prevalent concerns in terms of evolution and "changing times"
: both ...
9
The Encyclopaedia of Islam
'ilm al-katif, or 'ilm al-aktdf : scapulomancy or omoplatoscopy, i.e. divination by the
use of the shoulder-bones. This art forms a part of the practices of physiognomy.
It is universal in scope, inasmuch as it provides for the foretelling of what will ...
Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, 1998
10
Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology
Savonarola, 295 Sazhin, Mikhail, 775 Scaliger, 327 Scandinavia: ecclesiatical
calendar from, 242; prehistory in, 14, 15, 19, 233-34 scaphe, 86 scapulomancy,
134 Schaeberle, John Martin, 472 Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 154-55
Scheele, ...
