-
practices bibliomancy using the
pages of
Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe. This is a good
example of intertextuality,
since Crusoe himself uses
bibliomancy in...
- 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...
-
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...
-
writing dating to the
fifth or
sixth century used for
divination or
bibliomancy. It
contains 37
answers to
questions (lots),
though the
methods for readers...
- below,
influenced by Gr**** belemnon, 'javelin', or belonē, 'needle')
bibliomancy → see
chartomancy biorhythmic divination: by
biorhythms bletonism/bletonomancy...
- 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...
- (which
carried a
table for guidance) and poetry, as a
development of
bibliomancy. The
practice culminated in the
appearance of the
illustrated “Books...
- romanized: falnameh, lit. 'omen/divination book')
covers two
forms of
bibliomancy (fortune-telling
using a book) used
historically in Iran, Turkey, and...
- The
Sortes Vergilianae (Virgilian Lots) is a form of
divination by
bibliomancy in
which advice or
predictions of the ****ure are
sought by interpreting...
