Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. The use of sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for "magical medicine", for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world.
ISBN 9781874780946. OCLC 1340908405. Look up bibliomancy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bibliomancy from the Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliomancy Oracle...
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...
word Falnama (Persian: فالنامه, lit. 'falnameh') covers two forms of bibliomancy (fortune-telling using a book) used historically in Iran, Turkey, and...
Aztec mythology Banishing Banshee Baphomet Beltane Benedicaria (Italian) Bibliomancy Biosophy Biorhythm (pseudoscience) Black magic Black Mass Black Sun Blarney...
bolomancy below, influenced by Greek belemnon, javelin, or belonē, needle) bibliomancy → see chartomancy biorhythmic divination: by biorhythms bletonism/bletonomancy...
(which carried a table for guidance) and poetry, as a development of bibliomancy. The practice culminated in the appearance of the illustrated “Books...
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003) Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005) The Keyhole...
(similar to the ancient Roman practice of sortes sanctorum, a form of bibliomancy). Sikhs call the prostration mutha tekna ("lowering the forehead"). Whenever...
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...
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003) Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005) The Keyhole...
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003) Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005) The Keyhole...
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003) Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005) The Keyhole...
The Sortes Vergilianae (Virgilian Lots) is a form of divination by bibliomancy in which advice or predictions of the future are sought by interpreting...
the use of astrology (calculating the influence of heavenly bodies), bibliomancy (reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching)...
sub-disciplinePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Bibliomancy – Use of books in divination Confirmation bias – Bias confirming existing...
Single-Author Collection (for The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, published 2010; Bibliomancy, 2003; and Where Furnaces Burn, 2012), Anthology (Exotic Gothic 4, 2012)...
and the increasingly popular tradition of using it for the purposes of bibliomancy. The earliest verse translation (by Vasily Velichko) was published in...
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003) Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005) The Keyhole...
literary game based on the Sortes virgilianae—a form of divination by bibliomancy in which advice or predictions of the future are sought by randomly selecting...
includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella); Bibliomancy (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award; and Saffron and Brimstone:...
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003) Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005) The Keyhole...
Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003) Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005) The Keyhole...
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