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Fortune telling, scrying, and prognostication.
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There are literally hundreds of ways to tell the future, and each has its own specific term, though they all fall under the general term of "divination". Some other methods include:
Bibliomancy: divination through books, specifically The Bible
Ossomancy or Osteomancy: Throwing (or casting) bones
Cartomancy: cards (including tarot)
Chaomancy: clouds
I Ching: Chinese books of diagrams
Asragalomancy: Crystal ball
Geomancy: earth
Extispicy: entrails
Capnomancy: smoke
Foliomancy: tea leaves
And of course Astrology
Josefa Bergnaum
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∙ 12y agoFortune telling, scrying, and prognostication.
Answer
There are literally hundreds of ways to tell the future, and each has its own specific term, though they all fall under the general term of "divination". Some other methods include:
Bibliomancy: divination through books, specifically The Bible
Ossomancy or Osteomancy: Throwing (or casting) bones
Cartomancy: cards (including tarot)
Chaomancy: clouds
I Ching: Chinese books of diagrams
Asragalomancy: Crystal ball
Geomancy: earth
Extispicy: entrails
Capnomancy: smoke
Foliomancy: tea leaves
And of course Astrology
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Things or happineings supposedly foretelling a future event?
Omen
To make generalizations about future events based on inferences from data?
Prediction... Foretelling... Extrapolation...
What are some movies that you can predict the furture?
There are two movies called the time traveller one is a Christian movie, the other is not. One movie that made fun of future foretelling was Surf Ninjas.
What was the oracle's job?
To answer questions by foretelling the future. However the job as also to make the answers very difficult to understand.
What is the derivation of auspicious?
Latin auspicium. Foretelling future from flight if birds from Avis bird plus spicium to look up.
Which passage in Shakespeare's works is best known for foretelling the future?
Either the witches predicitions in Macbeth or the prologue to Romeo and Juliet
What does the prefix fore mean in foretelling?
In this case, it means the future, the part before us, as opposed to the past which is behind us.
When was The Foretelling created?
The Foretelling was created on 1983-06-15.
Who made dooms day?
Doomsday was created from prophecies because many scholars in the reigon where the places in the bible were foretelling the future that was about the apocalypse.
what god did ancient Greeks consult about the suture?
Asclepius was the god of medicine and therefore of suture. The God of Prophecy (foretelling the future) was Apollo.
When using renewable resources while ensuring that they are available for the future is a practice called?
sustainable development
How do you use Prognostigated in a sentence?
Prognosticated is a word that refers to foretelling the future or making a prophesy. An example of the term used in a sentence would be, "The old fortune teller prognosticated about the girl's future, which thoroughly freaked her out."
