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...istinguishing feature may be spun between two diverging paths or disparate objects, and the one closest to the feature is chosen. The party game [[Spin the Bo Cyclomancy is sometimes used in [[dowsing]]. ...

{{Short description|Stone used in divination}} ...m/books?id=5YjXnoAaYowC&dq=anancitis+-wikipedia&pg=PA42}}</ref> is a stone used to call up spirits from water.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopædia metropol ...

{{Short description|Method of divination using water}} ...and μαντεία, ''divination''<ref name="Liddell & Scott"/>) is a method of [[divination]] by means of [[water]], including the color, ebb and flow, or ripples prod ...

{{Short description|Traditional divination practice using sea shells}} '''Cowrie-shell divination''' refers to several distinct forms of [[divination]] using [[cowrie]] shells that are part of the [[ritual]]s and [[religion|r ...

{{Short description|Scottish mode of divination}} ...hairm''' was a historical [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[Gaels|Gaelic]] mode of [[divination]]. Several kinds of taghairm are described; each seemed to involve summonin ...

...oth Britain and America{{fact|date=January 2025}} for "counting out", e.g. for choosing who shall be "It" in a game of [[tag (game)|tag]]. ...our professions being grouped together is in [[William Congreve]]'s ''Love for Love'' (1695), which has the lines: ...

...ptional astrology, which is also part of Katarchic astrology. Katarkhé was used to discover and confirm events of the past. These events include following ...iner Verlag|year=2013}}</ref> In more recent times, Katarchic astrology is used to predict the future of individuals and influence the outcome of their fut ...

{{Short description|Divination technique using molten metal}} ...exicon'', on Perseus</ref> and [[wikt:-mancy|-mancy]]) is a technique of [[divination]] using molten [[metal]]. Typically, molten [[lead]] or [[tin]] is dropped ...

{{Short description|Sacred bow used in 1103 C.E. in Japan}} ...魔弓]]|extra=lit. 'evil-destroying bow'}} is a [[sacred]] bow (''[[yumi]]'') used in 1103 A.D. in [[Japan]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.zenko.org/bows.ht ...

...r meanings unrelated to the supernatural. The term ''occult sciences'' was used in the 16th century to refer to [[astrology]], [[alchemy]], and [[natural m ...ped in the mid-19th century and their descendants. Occultism is thus often used to categorise such esoteric traditions as [[Spiritualism (movement)|Spiritu ...

{{Short description|Divination method}} ...o known as '''tasseomancy''', '''tassology''', or '''tasseology''') is a [[divination]] or [[fortune-telling]] method that interprets [[pattern]]s in [[tea]] lea ...

{{Short description|Method of divination that interprets markings on the ground}} {{About|the African and European divination technique|the Chinese art of aesthetics|Feng shui|the Chinese philosophical ...

{{Short description|Tool for interpreting dream images}} ...dictionary''' (also known as '''oneirocritic literature''') is a tool made for interpreting images in a [[dream]]. Dream dictionaries tend to include spec ...

...ed by making a small offering and randomly choosing one from a box, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. {{As of|2024}}, vending machines sometime ...tree or wires so that the fortune has a greater effect or they can keep it for luck. {{transliteration|ja|Omikuji}} are available at many shrines and temp ...

...mb|upright|right|A [[quartz]] crystal ball of the type commonly used for [[divination]] or [[scrying]]]] ...erformance of [[clairvoyance]] and [[scrying]] through [[crystal gazing]]. Used since [[Late antiquity|Antiquity]], crystal balls have had a broad reputati ...

{{for-multi|the military equipment|Ephod Combat Vest|the iPod manager|ephPod}}{{K ...Exodus]] and the [[Book of Leviticus]], one is described as being created for the High Priest to wear as part of his official vestments (Exodus 28:4+, 29 ...

...rt |last2=Box}}</ref> Despite being plural, teraphim may refer to singular objects. Teraphim is defined in [[classical rabbinical literature]] as "disgraceful ...ible)|Laban]] and hides them on a camel's saddle. When Laban comes looking for them, she sits on them and claims that she cannot get up because she is "in ...

{{Short description|Method for seeing visions by gazing at a crystal}} {{for|the mirrored lawn ornament|Gazing ball}} ...

[[File:Military spouses exercise finding objects while blindfolded as part of a workshop by Marine Corps Family Team.jpg|thu Blindfolds can be used in various applications: ...

...y scholars known to be different but continue to be classified as the same for convenience.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} ...s of Liberian or European Americans.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} For their part, members of the Seaside Grebo have been reported as referring to ...