Lampadomancy signifies portents from lights or torches.
Lecanomancy involved a basin of water in the divinatory process; while Libanomancy requires incense as a means of interpreting omens.
Lithomancy utilizes precious stones of various colors. In its more modern form of divination, these are scattered on a flat surface, and whichever reflects the light most vividly fulfills the omen.
Blue - good luck soon.
Green - realization of a hope.
Red - happiness in love or marriage.
Yellow - disaster or betrayal.
Purple - a period of sadness.
Black or grey - misfortune.
Colored beads may be used instead of jewels.
Margaritomancy was a procedure utilizing pearls, which were supposed to bounce upward beneath an inverted pot if a guilty person approached.
Metagnomy is a comparatively modern form of intuitive divination covering past, distant scenes of present, and future events while viewed during a hypnotic trance.
Meteoromancy lists omens dependent on meteors and similar phenomena.
Metoposcopy is the reading of character from the lines of the forehead. Based on Astrology, it has factors akin to Palmistry, but belongs under the head of Physiognomy.
Molybdomancy draws mystic inferences from the varied hissings of molten lead.
Myomancy concerns rats and mice, the cries they give, the destruction they cause, all as prophetic tokens.
Numerology, though of ancient origin, is a modern form of interpreting names and dates in terms of vital numbers, all indicative of individual traits.
Oculomancy is a form of divination from the eyes.
Oinomancy utilizes wine in determining omens.
Oneiromancy is the interpretation of dreams.
Onomancy answers the question of "what's in a name" by giving meanings for names of persons and things, but has comparatively little importance as a divinatory art.
Onomantics is a development of Onomancy, applied to personal names. Some of these are obvious in meaning, as Hope, or Victor. Others are easily translatable, as Sophia for wisdom, or Leo for lion-hearted. Others have been extended or elaborated, but their basic meanings can be found in many dictionaries or standard reference works, and they lack the deeper significance of psychic or occult interpretation.
Onychomancy is a study of the fingernails in the sunlight, looking for any significant symbols that can be traced.
Onyomancy is similar and somewhat more practical, being an interpretation of personal characteristics from the nails, as a minor phase of Palmistry.
Oomantia and Ooscopy are terms applied to ancient methods of divination by eggs.
Ophiomancy covers divination from serpents.
Orniscopy and Ornithomancy are concerned with omens gained by watching the flight of different birds.
Ovomancy is another form of egg divination.
Palmistry is one of the most interesting of psychic sciences and has reached a high state of modern development. Long known as the "language of the hand," it interprets the lines and general formations according to well-accepted rules.
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