Psychic Sciences - 5

Dactylomancy is the early form of radiesthesia, with a dangling ring indicating words and numbers by its swings.

Daphnomancy requires listening to laurel branches crackling in an open fire; the louder the crackle, the better the omen.

Demonomancy refers to divinations through the aid of demons.

Dendromancy is associated with both the oak and mistletoe. Divining rods and Dowsing are dealt with in the chapter on Radiesthesia.

Gastromancy was an ancient form of ventriloquism, with the voice lowered to a sepulchral tone as though issuing from the ground. Prophetic utterances were thus delivered in a trance state.

Geloscopy was the art of divination from the tone of someone's laughter.

Genethlialogy was the calculation of the future from the influence of the stars at birth.

Geomancy began with tracing figures in the ground and later was extended to include random dots made with a pencil, which were interpreted according to accepted designs, practically a predecessor of our modern "doodles."

Graphology, the analysis of character through handwriting, was studied in ancient times and given a psychic significance. Its modern version is detailed in a special chapter.

Gyromancy was performed by persons walking in a circle marked with letters, until they became dizzy and stumbled at different points, thus "spelling out" a prophecy.

Halomancy is another term for Alomancy, or divination by salt.

Haruspicy, Hieromancy, Hieroscopy, all had to do with observing objects of ancient sacrifice and drawing prophetic conclusions from them.

Hippomancy was a form of divination from the stamping and neighing of horses.

Horoscopy pertains to the casting of an astrological horoscope.

Hydromancy, or divination by water, covers a wide range of lesser auguries, such as the color of water, its ebb and flow, or the ripples produced by pebbles dropped into a pool, an odd number being good, an even number, bad. Our modern "Tea leaf" and "coffee ground" readings date from this, as Hydromancy also included close study of water and figures formed therein.

Ichthyomancy involved fish as factors in divination.