But then on the other hand, selecting random tarot cards out of a pack of seventy-eight or deciphering a hand full of pebbles or seashells thrown to the ground also challenges the logic in us all. There are hundreds if not thousands of divinational systems methods to forecast the future that operate by intuitive rather than scientific or rational means. The premise of all these techniques is in the belief that there is a spiritual world that parallels our own. The actual process of how pebbles land in a particular pattern and why a particular tarot card was chosen and not another is as much a mystery to the experienced psychics as it is to the public.
However, the key to building a rapport with any of the mantic arts articles used to focus the intuitive process is to first adopt a frame of mind in which there is a sense of suspension of ones everyday beliefs.
More than 2, years ago the people of ancient Italy Etruscians practised Alectryomancy. By utilising a hen or rooster the psychics of those days would draw a circle on the ground, around it where drawn twenty of the Etruscian alphabet.
In front of each letter was placed a kernel of grain. The patterns are associated with different lines. For instance, broken lines are linked with traveling or new adventures, parallel lines are related to financial issues, vertical lines are regarded as guided roads one should follow, and horizontal lines tell your fate.
Aeromancy is yet another type of divination that examines atmospheric conditions, such as winds, thunder, lightning, and meteors. Although the exact origin of aeromancy is not yet known, the first recorded texts about the divinatory technique are dated Notwithstanding, the variations of the term have been found in the Bible.
There are several subtypes of aerology that use different atmospheric conditions for divinatory purposes. For example, austromancy not to be confused with astromancy, which is another term for astrology observes the direction and strength of the wind to divine the future.
On the other hand, ceraunoscopy considers thunder and lightning for divination. Another type of aeromancy is nephomancy, which observes clouds to derive readings.
Aleuromancy is a divinatory practice using flour to forecast the future. Originally, people would write philosophical phrases and bake them inside of cakes. These cakes were later distributed to individuals willing to see the future. The modern tradition of fortune cookies can be regarded as a type of this divination technique. Alectryomancy is a type of divination in which the reader observes the motion of a bird s while it pecks at grain scattered on the ground.
The grain is typically placed over some letters and the diviner just reads the letters as the rooster pecks at it. This divinatory technique is somewhat similar to Ouija, which also uses a random selection of letters. Alphitomancy is one of the strangest forms of divination. In alphitomancy, barley cakes or loaves of barley bread are prepared. It is believed that whoever is guilty will get indigestion, while innocent ones will feel well. As a matter of fact, a fetus is enclosed by an amniotic membrane, called caul.
In amniomancy, diviners observe the color and consistency of the caul to provide readings and forecast the future of the baby.
This form of divination can involve an examination of the embryonic sac and even amniotic fluid. Anthropomancy, also known as splanchomancy, is a form of divination by observing internal organs of dead or dying people. In most cases, the virgin female children were sacrificed and the entrails were used for divinatory purposes.
In some cultures, especially in ancient Rome and Etruria, people would sacrifice animals and examine their intestines to divine the future. Botanomancy involves the burning of tree branches, leaves, and herbs for divinatory purposes. The term can also be used for describing any type of divination using a plant. Some specific forms of botanomancy include sycomancy uses figs or fig leaves , floromancy uses flowers , and dendromancy uses branches and leaves of plants.
The Oracle at Delphi is one of the most famous fortune tellers in the world, and according to Rebus , the Pythia of Apollo's temple became the most sought-after soothsayer among all the oracles of ancient Greece. In order to consult her, applicants would have to get on a waiting list — which could take months — then, when it was time, offer up a sacrificial goat and take a purifying bath. It was only then that the Pythia would answer whatever questions they had about the future. At the time, the predictions were believed to be visions sent from Apollo and left for the recipient to interpret.
Now, historians say that's not precisely the case. Apollo, says History Answers , was thought to send his wisdom to his earthly representative with the help of vapors that drifted up though a fissure in her chambers. And here's the odd thing — even though historians know where the temple is, finding out just what the vapors were has been difficult. The running theory is that they were some sort of combination of methane, ethane, and ethylene gases, leaking up into the chambers and getting very, very concentrated.
Some throw a little carbon dioxide in there via LiveScience , but either way, even the ancient Greeks acknowledged that the oracle tranced out by huffing some noxious fumes. Who better to ask about the future? Molybdomancy is the practice of melting a substance, then pouring it into water to harden it into a shape that's then used to predict the future. The huge problem comes in with the fact it's traditionally done with lead.
In ye olde times, it wasn't really clear just how dangerous lead was. The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment confirms that yes, molten lead releases toxic fumes that can be inhaled by anyone nearby, and that makes it even odder that a specific sort of molybdomancy — bleigiessen — remains popular in German-speaking countries to this day. According to the German Way , bleigiessen is a New Year's tradition that dates back to the Celtic and Roman eras, and is still practiced in Finland, Turkey, and Germany.
Lead — or, alternately candle wax or tin — is melted, then dropped into a bowl. If it forms a ball, that means the new year will be filled with luck. A frog means some lottery winnings are on the way, and a chalice means a general sort of happiness. Oddly, none of the shapes are linked to lead poisoning, which seems like the most likely outcome.
Use of lead in bleigiessen kits was only banned in Bobbing for apples is one of those traditional Halloween activities that everyone hears about, but nobody seems to do. It's a tradition that was once linked to gaining insight into the future. Fruit historian Joan Morgan told NPR that it was once wildly popular for girls to make particular marks on the apples destined to be bobbed for — and when a boy surfaced with one of the apples, it was said to hint at a future romance. Apples have long been linked to ideas of fertility and rebirth: Apple blossoms in the spring signaled the end of the winter months, and the autumn apples themselves were an invaluable part of the harvest.
That, Morgan says, is what led to a belief in their ability to give hints at a person's future love life. These old European beliefs were carried to the New World, too. Girls who peeled an apple in a single strip of skin would throw that peel over their shoulder, and hope that it would land in the shape of a young man's first initial. Learn Religions says they were also used to help girls make a choice between suitors: Take the seeds of an apple, assign them names of potential matches, and then stick them to the cheek.
The last seed to fall is the one who's meant to be. If only it were all that easy. What does the chicken say? You've got a funny nose. You know that that means. Ever have a gut feeling? There may be more to it. Keep an eye on the cat Shutterstock. When seeing the future involves a trip to the bathroom Shutterstock. What if you only have to go Number One? The answer is in the books Shutterstock. Give me your hands Shutterstock. The behavior of domesticated birds like hens, chickens, parakeets and canaries was also extensively used by diviners in antiquity as omens for the future.
In fact the movements and actions of hens and chickens formed the basis of a separate form of divination known as alectryomancy; according to the most popular form of alectryomancy, the seer would observe the pattern made by a rooster eating corn or grains from the ground and then read them as portents of the future.
Along with this alectryomancy also involved interpretation of such movements of the hens and chicken as made while dustbathing, pluming, standing on one leg or scratching holes in the ground. The most celebrated example perhaps of orniscopy occurs in the Odyssey , when thrice an eagle appears, flying to the right, with a dead dove in its talons; this augury was interpreted as the coming of Odysseus and the death of his wife's suitors.
With the emergence of the Christian church however, orniscopy like other practices of divination were banned as examples of sorcery. For this reason ornithomancy is mentioned several times in the Septuagint version of the bible, where it is expressly forbidden. All Rights Reserved. Skip to main content. Error message Warning : "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break".
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