Mancies

During the times men live on earth thousands and thousands of ways have been developed/discovered to do mancy, i.e. to predict something about yourself or someone else, now or in the future.

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I classified them in three main categories and many categories below. By clicking on the [+] and [-]-symbols you can unfold or fold those branches.

Some of the mancies have a ~ in front of them: these are links to an example. It's my intention to present more and more examples of mancies. See my mancymail page.

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Signs
- + - Augury, theriomancy (in/with/by animals)
  - Zoomancy (behaviour/appearance)
    - Ailuromancy - felidomancy (cats)
    - Alectr(y)omancy (cocks)
    - Anthroposcopy (people)
    - Arachnomancy (spiders)
    - Entomomancy (insects)
    - Hippomancy (horses)
    - Ichtyomancy (fish {form and entrails})
    - Myomancy (mice)
    - Ophiomancy (snakes {Gr. ofis})
    - Ornithomancy/orniscopy (birds {pattern of their flight})
  - Metoscopy (Form/properties of body parts)
    - Gastromancy-ventriloquism (belly)
    - Moleoscopy (birthmarks)
    - Omphi(a/e)lomancy (the navel)
      - form and size of the belly button
      - navel string (umbilical cord) of a newborn baby
    - Ony(cho)mancy - nails: reflection of the sunlight nails
    - Phrenology - swellings on the head
    - Physiognomy - the face
    - Podomancy - the feet
    - Sternomancy - the breast-belly-line
    - Chiromancy / chirognomy / chirology / palmistry - lines/forms in handpalms and fingers
  - Hieromancy / extispicy / (h)aruspicy / hieroscopy (entrails of {sacrificed} animals)
    - Hepatomancy - liver
    - Cephalo-/Kaphalomancy - skull/head of a donkey/goat
    - Ichtyomancy - fish (form and entrails)
    - Scapulomancy - burnt shoulderblades (patterns)
    - Spatalamancy - skin, bone, excrements
    - Anthropomancy - entrails of a human (sacrifice)
      - Antinopomancy - entrails of women and children
- + - Aeromancy (atmosferical phenomena)
  - Austro(au)mancy (on the direction of the wind {auster=south wind})
  - Ceraunoscopy (on thunder and lightning)
  - Chaomancy (form of clouds/the rainbow)
    - ~ Aircraft lines
  - Mete(o)r(o)mancy (falling stars / meteors)
  - Roadomancy (stars)
  - Astrology (solar signs, stars and planets)
    - Genethliacs (Astrology at birth)
- + - Pyromancy - Scrying by fire (patterns and colors in fire)
  - Botanomancy - burning herbs (leaves/branches)
  - Capnomancy - watching smoke
  - Causinomancy - objects in the fire
  - Daphnomancy - burning laurel leaves
  - Halomancy - casting salt in the fire
  - Lampadomancy -with the flame of a torch
  - Livanomancy - burning incense
  - ~ Luciferomancy (form of a match after burning)
  - Lychnomancy - flames of (three) wax-candles
  - ~ Mandarinomancy - burning mandarin peels
    - ~ drying the peels
  - Pyroscopy - burning paper and watch the ashes
  - Sideromancy (patterns/movement of straw thrown on redhot iron {Gr. sideros})
- + - Food (form/shape of foodstuffs)
  - Aleuromancy/Alphitomancy: fortune cookies (dough balls w/ paper baked inside)
  - ~ Bacamancy - with flattened berries
  - Botanomancy/Daphnomancy - herbs (in the fire)
  - Crit(h)omancy - forms in freshly baked bread/cake
    - With pancakes
  - Cromniomancy - with onions
  - Oenamancy/Oinamancy (with wine)
  - Sycomancy - with figs
  - Tasseography - tea leaves/coffee grounds
  - Tyromancy - with cheese (Gr. turos=cheese)
- + - Other stuff
  - ~ Ceromancy - with molten and hardened wax
Instruments
- + - Radiesthesia - dowsing (based on earth radiation)
  - Cleidomancy (with hanging key)
  - Coscinomancy (with hanging or balancing sieve)
  - Dactylomancy (with hanging finger-ring)
- + - Modern apparatus
  - ~ Radiomancy
  - ~ TV-mancy
Cleromancy/sortilege
- + - Stichomancy (with {passages in} books)
  - Bibliomancy (with the Bible)
  - Rapsodomancy (with a poetry book)
- + - Astragalomancy (bones with symbols, or dice)
  - Runes (using rune-signs)
- Tarot
- I Ching

Mantalogue - a lot of interesting information on mancies collected by James Lambert

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