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Various and sundry ways the ancients used to predict the future
Published on November 23, 2005 By singrdave In Humor
And you thought numerology was the only way to enlightenment...

Alectromancy - uses letters inscribed in a circle, selected by rooster pecking grain.
Bibliomancy - is divination by turning to random book passages.
Bletonism - divines by observing swirling currents of water.
Cephalomancy - Examines the boiled skull of an animal particularly goat or Donkey.
Cromniomancy - divines using interpretation of the curved patterns found inside an onion.
Dorze - throws fowl entrails on the ground to examine patterns for prediction.
Geomancy(1) - is examines earth (dirt) trickled from the hand to a surface.
Leconomancy - is divination by observing the shapes made by oil poured on water.
Moleosophy - is divination using the shapes of moles on the body.
Nephlomancy - (aeromancy) divining using pictures in clouds as omens.
Ololygnomancy - divining examining the howling of dogs.
Phyllomancy - divining using the shapes and lines of leaves.
Scatoscopy - is divination by the examination of excrement.
Tyromancy - uses the coagulation patterns of spoiled cheese.
Uromancy - examines urine and also divines using the direction and spray from urination.
Zoomancy - is divination by observing the movement and behavior of animals.

Kids, don't try these at home!

Comments
on Nov 23, 2005
Fuuntain of useless knowledge ,Indeed!
Don't you work?
on Nov 23, 2005
Don't you work?


I concur. Surfing the web is not a full time job! Happy Thanksgiving!
on Nov 23, 2005
Funnily enough, I've been unwittingly using Zoomancy to predict the weather for years. My mum and dad were country people who used to say that you could tell when it was going to rain by observing the cows. When they all went to a particular end of the field and laid down, it was going to rain.

Nowadays, my back and knees are accurate rain and snow predictors.
on Nov 23, 2005
Don't you work?

Surfing the web is not a full time job!


I do work, but do you think there was much productivity the afternoon before the Thanksgiving holiday? Thanksgiving Eve is not a great time to get things done. But a great time to try and find some weird, esoteric stuff on the web.
on Nov 24, 2005
So, like, who's gonna win the superbowl, oh mighty nostradamus?