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The Fortune-Telling Book
The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying
By:Â Raymond Buckland
Paperback | 9 October 2003
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Best-selling Wiccan seer and gypsy mystic Raymond Buckland focused his attention on the intuitive art of prognostication in this tome. A master of his art, the late Buckland designed fortune-telling decks, read cards, and did other types of fortune telling for over fifty years. A comprehensive A-to-Z exploration of all that peers into tomorrow, The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying divines the meanings of 400 key topics relating to this oft-misunderstood, oft-consulted-upon science. Written in clear, concise language, it discusses everything from aeromancy (seeing by observing atmospheric phenomena) to zoomancy (divination by the appearance or behavior of animals) and the 398 others in between.
This fascinating encyclopedia is illustrated with 100 pictures and includes a detailed index and additional reading recommendations. Packed with colorful histories, people, and significant events, The Fortune-Telling Book shows readers how to foretell their own fates. It's sure to please fortune-telling enthusiasts, whatever their powers.
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Introduction | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
p. 1 | |
Abacomancy | |
Aberfan | |
Abrams, Albert (1863-1924) | |
Acultomancy | |
Adams, Evangeline (1865-1932) | |
Aeromancy | |
AEsculapius | |
African Divination | |
Ailuromancy | |
Akashic Records | |
Alectromancy; Alectormancy; Alectryomancy | |
Aleuromancy | |
Alphitomancy | |
Alveromancy | |
Ambulomancy | |
American Society for Psychical Research | |
American Society of Dowsers | |
Amniomancy | |
Amon; Amun; Ammon | |
Anthomancy | |
Anthracomancy | |
Anthropomancy | |
Apantomancy | |
Apollo | |
Apollonius of Tyana | |
d'Arc, Jeanne (1412-1431) | |
Arithmancy; Arithmomancy | |
Armomancy | |
Aspidomancy | |
Astragalomancy; Astragyromancy | |
Astral Projection | |
Astrology | |
Augurs | |
Augury | |
Aura | |
Aurispicy | |
Austromancy | |
Automanzia | |
Automatic Writing/Drawing/Painting | |
Axinomancy; Axiomancy | |
p. 61 | |
Babylonian Zodiac | |
Bagoe | |
Batrachomancy; Batraquomancy | |
Belomancy; Bolomancy | |
Bender, Hans Georg (1907-1991) | |
Bible | |
Bibliomancy | |
Biorhythms | |
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891) | |
Bletonism | |
Botanomancy; Botomancy | |
Bouly, Abbe Alex (1865-1958) | |
Brahan Seer (d. 1660) | |
British Premonitions Bureau | |
British Society Of Dowsers | |
Brontomancy | |
Brown, Rosemary (b. 1917) | |
Buchanan, Joseph Rhodes (1814-1899) | |
Buckland, Raymond (b. 1934) | |
Bumpology | |
p. 83 | |
Candle | |
Capnomancy; Captromancy | |
Carrington, Hereward (1881-1959) | |
Cartomancy | |
Catoptromancy; Enoptromancy | |
Causimancy; Causimomancy | |
Cayce, Edgar (1877-1945) | |
Celtic Astrology | |
Celts | |
Ceneromancy | |
Central Premonitions Registry | |
Cephalomancy; Cephalonomancy; Kephalonomancy | |
Ceraunomancy; Ceraunoscopy | |
Ceremonial Magic | |
Ceromancy; Ceroscopy | |
Chair Test | |
Channeling; Mediumship | |
Chaomancy | |
Cheiromancy; Chiromancy; Cheirosophy; Chirognomy | |
Chien Tung | |
China | |
Chinese Astrology | |
Chinese Buddhist Divination | |
Chinese Palmistry | |
Christian Qabbalah | |
Chronomancy | |
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BCE) | |
Clairaudience | |
Clairgustance | |
Clairsentience | |
Clairvoyance | |
Clamancy | |
Cledonomancy; Cledonismancy | |
Cleidomancy; Clidomancy | |
Cleromancy | |
Coffee Grounds | |
Coins | |
Colorology | |
Combe, George (1788-1858) | |
Conchomancy | |
Copernican System | |
Coscinomancy; Cosquinomancy | |
Cratippus (First Century BCE) | |
Crithomancy; Critomancy | |
Croesus (Sixth Century BCE) | |
Croiset, GeRard (1909-1980) | |
Cromnyomancy | |
Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919) | |
Crowley, Aleister (1875-1947) | |
Crystallomancy | |
Cubomancy | |
Cyclomancy | |
Cylicomancy | |
p. 173 | |
Dactyliomancy | |
Dactyls | |
Daphnomancy | |
Dee, Dr. John (1527-1608) | |
Delphi | |
Dement, William Charles (b. 1928) | |
Demonomancy | |
Dendromancy | |
Deunov, Peter (1864-1944) | |
Dice | |
Divination | |
Dixon, Jeane (1918-1997) | |
Dodona | |
Dog | |
Dominoes | |
Dowsing | |
Dririmancy; Drymimancy | |
Dunne, John William (1875-1949) | |
p. 193 | |
Egyptians, Ancient | |
Empyromancy | |
Encausse, Gerard Anaclet Vincent--"Papus" (1865-1916) | |
Endor, Woman of | |
Etruscans | |
Extispicy; Extispex | |
Extrasensory Perception | |
p. 205 | |
Fate; Destiny | |
Fatidicency | |
Floromancy | |
Fodor, Nandor (1895-1964) | |
Forman, Simon (1552-1611) | |
Fortuna | |
Fortune Cookies | |
Fortune-Telling in Popular Culture | |
Fox, Oliver (1885-1949) | |
p. 215 | |
Galgal | |
Gall, Franz Joseph (1758-1828) | |
Garrett, Eileen Jeanette (1893-1970) | |
Gastromancy | |
Geloscopy; Gelotoscopy | |
Gematria | |
Gemology | |
Genethlialogy | |
Geomancy | |
Graphology; Graptomancy | |
Gray, Eden (1902-1999) | |
Greece | |
Groundhog | |
Gypsies | |
Gyromancy | |
p. 237 | |
Haematomancy | |
Halomancy | |
Hamon, Count Louis--"Cheiro" (1866-1936) | |
Harris, Frieda (1877-1962) | |
Hartlieb, Johann (c. 1400-1468) | |
Haruspication; Haruspicy; Haruspex | |
Hebrew | |
Hepatoscopy | |
Hieromancy | |
Hieroscopy | |
Hippomancy | |
Horoscope; Horoscopy | |
Hurkos, Peter (b. 1911) | |
Hydatoscopy | |
Hydromancy | |
Hypnomancy | |
p. 249 | |
I Ching | |
Ichnomancy | |
Ichthyomancy | |
Iconomancy | |
Idolomancy | |
Incubation | |
India | |
Internet Fortune-Telling | |
p. 277 | |
Japan | |
Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) | |
p. 281 | |
Kaplan, Stuart R. | |
Karma | |
Kelley, Edward (1555-1593) | |
King, Bruce--"Zolar" (1897-1976) | |
Kledon | |
Knissomancy; Libanomancy; Livanomancy | |
Kumulak | |
p. 289 | |
Labiomancy | |
Lake, Lissanne (b. 1956) | |
Lampadomancy | |
Lavater, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801) | |
Leadbeater, Charles Webster (1847-1934) | |
Lecanomancy | |
Leconomancy | |
Leek, Sybil (1923-1983) | |
Leftwich, Robert | |
Lenormand, Marie-Anne Adelaide (1768-1843) | |
Leo, Alan (1860-1917) | |
LeShan, Lawrence (b. 1920) | |
Lilly, William (1602-1681) | |
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) | |
Lithomancy | |
Logomancy | |
Lots of Praeneste, The | |
Lottery | |
Lunomancy | |
p. 305 | |
Macromancy | |
Maculomancy | |
Mah-Jongg | |
Margaritomancy | |
Mathemancy | |
Meconomancy | |
Medical Radiesthesia | |
Mermet, Abbe Alexis (1866-1937) | |
Mesopotamia | |
Metagnome; Metagnomy | |
Metagraphology | |
Meteoromancy | |
Metopomancy; Metoposcopy | |
Mexico and Central America | |
Micromancy | |
Mikhailova, Nelya (b. 1927) | |
Mirror-Gazing | |
Moleosophy | |
Molybdomancy | |
Monroe, Robert Allan (1915-1995) | |
Montgomery, Ruth (1912-2001) | |
Moon Phases | |
Myers, Frederick William Henry (1843-1901) | |
Myomancy | |
p. 327 | |
Nabhi | |
Narcomancy | |
Native American | |
Necromancy; Nigromantia | |
Necyomancy | |
Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame) (1503-1566) | |
Numerology | |
p. 339 | |
Oculomancy | |
Odontomancy | |
OEnomancy; Oinomancy; Olinomancy | |
Old Testament | |
Old, Walter Richard "Gorn"--"Sepharial" (1864-1929) | |
Ololygmancy | |
Omen | |
Omoplatoscopy | |
O'Morgair, Malachy (Eleventh Century) | |
Omphalomancy | |
Oneiromancy | |
Onimancy | |
Onomancy | |
Onymancy; Onychomancy | |
Oomancy; Oomantia; Ooscopy | |
Ophidiomancy; Ophiomancy | |
Oracles | |
Orniscopy; Ornithomancy | |
Oryctomancy | |
Ossomancy; Osteomancy | |
Ouija and Other Talking Boards | |
Ouranomancy; Uranomancy | |
Ovomancy | |
p. 359 | |
Palmistry | |
Papon, Robert Donald (b. 1940) | |
Pedomancy | |
Pegomancy | |
Pessomancy | |
Phallomancy | |
Phrenology | |
Phyllomancy | |
Phyllorhodomancy | |
Physiognomancy; Physiognomy; Anthroposcopy | |
Piper, Leonore E. (1857-1950) | |
Planchette | |
Podomancy | |
Power Spots | |
Powers, Serena (b. 1966) | |
Precognition | |
Prediction | |
Premonition; Presentiment | |
Prophecy; Prophet | |
Psephomancy | |
Psychics | |
Psychography | |
Psychomancy | |
Psychometry; Psychoscopy | |
Pyramid, Great | |
Pyromancy | |
Pyromantia | |
Pyroscopy | |
Pythia | |
p. 393 | |
Qabbalah | |
p. 397 | |
Radiesthesia | |
Radionics | |
Ravens and Crows | |
Redcap, Old Mother | |
Reincarnation | |
Retrocognition; Retrodiction | |
Retromancy | |
Rhabdomancy | |
Rhapsodomancy | |
Rhine, Dr. Joseph Banks (1895-1980) | |
Robertson, Morgan Andrew (1861-1915) | |
Rome | |
Roses | |
Runemal | |
Runes | |
p. 419 | |
Saxon Wands | |
Scandinavia | |
Scapulimancy; Scapulomancy | |
Scatomancy; Scatoscopy | |
Schematomancy | |
Sciomancy | |
Scotland | |
Scrying; Skrying | |
Seances | |
Second Sight | |
Seer/Seeress | |
Selenomancy | |
Shaman | |
Shell Hearing | |
"Shipton, Mother" (1488-1561) | |
Siberian and Lapp | |
Sibyl | |
Sibylline Books | |
Sibylline Oracles | |
Sideromancy | |
Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900) | |
Smith, Pamela Colman (1878-1951) | |
Smith, Robert Cross--"Raphael" (1795-1832) | |
Sneeze | |
Soal, Samuel George (1889-19??) | |
Society for Psychical Research | |
Soothsayer | |
Sorcery | |
Sortes | |
Sortilege | |
Spasmatomancy | |
Spatilomancy | |
Spheromancy | |
Spider | |
Spiritualism | |
Spodanomancy; Spodomancy | |
Stercomancy | |
Stichomancy | |
Stoicheomancy | |
Stolisomancy | |
Sun Signs | |
Svantovit; Svetovit | |
Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1722) | |
Sycomancy | |
p. 457 | |
Table Tipping; Table Turning | |
Tages | |
Taoism | |
Tarot | |
Tasseography | |
Tephramancy; Tephromancy | |
Teraphim | |
Thailand | |
Theomancy | |
Thomas the Rhymer (c. 1220-1297) | |
Thoth | |
Thrioboly | |
Tibet | |
Tiromancy; Tyromancy | |
Topomancy | |
Trees | |
Tripod | |
Tripudiary; Tripudium | |
Trochomancy | |
Tympana | |
Typtology | |
p. 493 | |
Urimancy; Uromancy; Urinomancy; Oromancy | |
p. 495 | |
Vasiliev, Leonid (1891-1966) | |
Vaticination | |
Vedic Astrology | |
Virgilian Lots | |
Voudon; Voodoo | |
p. 503 | |
Waite, Arthur Edward--"Grand Orient" (1857-1942) | |
Watkins, Alfred (1855-1935) | |
Witness | |
De Wohl, Louis (1903-1961) | |
Wood, Robin (b. 1953) | |
p. 509 | |
Xenomancy | |
Xylomancy | |
Yggdrasil | |
Yin and Yang | |
Zener Cards | |
Zodiac | |
Zoomancy | |
Resources | p. 517 |
Index | p. 537 |
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ISBN: 9781578591473
ISBN-10: 1578591473
Series: Visible Ink Ser.
Published: 9th October 2003
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 546
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 19.1 x 3.4
Weight (kg): 0.96
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