10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPODOMANCY»
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The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and ...
(See also Tephramancy) Spodomancy is divination using cinders that, in the
original practice, were from sacrificial fires. According to Arthur Edward Waite,
writing as “Grand Orient,” this was still practiced in Germany during the first half of
the ...
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He Do the Time Police in Different Voices
Major Godalming projected sulkiness into his mug of beer. "So when I set about
the series of predictive experiments that had such ultimately unsettling results, I
sifted the more obscure divinatory modes. Have you ever heard of spodomancy,
...
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Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
APPENDIX E, Mancy Words: retromancy *+ spodomancy Appendix E, Mancy
Words: xenomancy *+ zygomancy xenomancy, divination by. vigorous and
quickly consumed the sacrifice and when the smoke was transparent, neither red
nor dark ...
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An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... trystiwr Splutterer, splyt'-ter-er, s. mwngialwr; Spodomancy, spod'-o-man-si, s.
lludw- armes Spodumene, spod'-iw-min, s. lludfaen Spoil, spoil, s. anrhaith,
yshail, ysglyf- aeth, yshleddach, ysglyf ; llygredd ; esgroen: v. a. anrbeithio,
ysheilio, ...
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Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting Orthography, ...
Splutter*$, splttV-ex, s. À spluttering ; а bustle or stir. £plntt'cr\i, vi To speak hastily
, and thickly and confusedly, H., spluttiringtf, p., в.; splutCêrertS, s. : &c. 89. [by
ashes. Spodomancy, spod -o-min-se, в. 43. Divination Spodfumene, -й-mvm, s.
18.
Arnold James Cooley, 1861
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Walker remodelled: Smart's pronouncing dictionary of the ...
Hence*, Splut'-ter-ing, Ac., pi*.; Splut'-ter-er, s. SPODOMANCY, spod"-o-mon'-
ceM, *. Divination by aslics. Spod'-U-MENE, *. Prismatic triphane spar. SPOIL=
gpoil, v. and S. (See also Spoliate, Ac.) To corrupt, to mar, to make useless :— n«
*.
John Walker, Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (Mich.), 1871
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The Optimist's/Pessimist's Handbook: A companion to hope and ...
... the movement of mice) b Necromancy (questioning the spirit: 0! the dead about
the future) Oneiromancy (divinatlon by dreams) Sealosecpy (examining
excrement) Sortilege (casting of lots) Spodomancy (xtudying ashes) . - "i ' n
tlmmatie.
Niall Edworthy, Petra Cramsie, 2011
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The Demon Dictionary Volume One: Know Your Enemy. Learn His ...
This includes rhabdomancy, belomancy, and similar procedures. spodomancy
Divination by examining the ashes of sacrifices targeted for omens. spudomancy
Divination by examining the cinders from sacrificial fires. stichomancy Divination
...
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Ex: spodomancy, divination (cfmancy) byashes. spopdyli, spondylus; spondyl(o):
1st,pl, and 2nd. sing, come from Lspondylus, itsetffrom Gr spondulos, Attic
sphondulos, a vertebra, akinto sphadazein (s sphadaz, ? anextension of r *sphad
), ...
