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Definition of Bibliomancy

Bibliomancy
Bibliomancy Bib"li*o*man`cy, n. [Gr. ? book + -mancy: cf. F. bibliomancie.] A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

Meaning of Bibliomancy from wikipedia

- practices bibliomancy using the pages of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. This is a good example of intertextuality, since Crusoe himself uses bibliomancy in...
- in 405 AD. The texts were used for divination in a primitive form of bibliomancy, which came much later. Though loosely described as books, the second...
- Ancient Greece portal Poetry portal Literature portal Achaeans (Homer) Bibliomancy Catalogue of Ships Creophylus of Samos Cyclic Poets Deception of Zeus...
- Avimancy, divination by birds Axinomancy Axiom of Maria Banishing Baphomet Bibliomancy Black magic Black M**** Black Sun Body of light Boline Book of shadows...
- Single-Author Collection (for The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, published 2010; Bibliomancy, 2003; and Where Furnaces Burn, 2012), Anthology (Exotic Gothic 4, 2012)...
- (similar to the ancient Roman practice of sortes sanctorum, a form of bibliomancy). Sikhs call the prostration **** tekna ("lowering the forehead"). Whenever...
- below, influenced by Gr**** belemnon, 'javelin', or belonē, 'needle') bibliomancy → see chartomancy biorhythmic divination: by biorhythms bletonism/bletonomancy...
- classics. The latest research suggests that he may in fact have used bibliomancy for this—randomly selecting a book of history or prophecy and taking...
- (which carried a table for guidance) and poetry, as a development of bibliomancy. The practice culminated in the appearance of the illustrated “Books...
- C****eh is fāl-e Ḥāfeẓ, which is divination using the Dīvān of Hafez (i.e. bibliomancy). It is believed that one should not divine by the Dīvān of Hafez more...