-mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical

Divination by observing the arrangement of sand, dust, or dirt: In the newspaper article that Susan read, there was a person who believed in amathomancy and thought that the patterns that sand made on the ground indicated what her day was going to be like.

Divination by observing how someone walks: Ambulomancy was explained by Dr. Small as foretelling the future by walking in circles!

Divination by the examination of the caul, or the membrane, which sometimes envelopes the head of a child at birth: Amniomancy involved an examination of the caul. There was a prediction about the baby’s future. if If it was red, happy days would follow. If it was lead-colored, the baby would have misfortunes.

Divination by studying and interpreting the direction of the winds: Sam was very interested in anstromancy, a form of aeromancy, and was outside most of the time, feeling how the wind blew and from what directions.

Divination with flowers: One kind of anthomancy involves the removal of the petals from a daisy for a "she-loves-me", "she-loves-me-not" type of prediction.

Fortunetelling by analyzing burning coals: In his book, Sam read about anthracomancy involving lighting up coal with fire and interpreting what could be seen.

Divination or fortune telling by examining the entrails of a person during a sacrifice or slaughter, usually those of virgins or young children: With anthropomancy, the viscera (organs of the digestive, respiratory, urogenital, as well as the spleen, the heart, and great vessels) were used to read symbols of the future.

This form of anthropomancy was practiced in ancient Egypt. The Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is said to have done this, too.

Herodotus said that Menelaus, who was detained in Egypt by contrary winds, used anthropomancy by sacrificing two children of the country, and sought to discover his destiny by this method.

It is reported that in his magical operations of anthropomancy, Julian the Apostate, caused a large number of children to be killed so that he might consult their entrails and a woman was found in the Temple of the Moon at Carra, in Mesopotamia, hanging by her hair with her liver torn out.

This type of anthropomancy divination continued through the period of the Roman Empire and it was believed to have been revived by notorious practitioners of the black arts during the Middle Ages.

Divination or fortune telling by observing the facial features of a person: Vera was very concerned about her future and decided to have a diviner interpret her facial expressions by using the method of anthroposomancy.

Prophecy by interpreting the entrails of a person: Janet was horrified when she read that some people believed in antinopomancy by viewing the bowels or viscera of an individual when they were taken out of the body.

A typo error for "anthropomancy". Said to be a "ghost word".

A divination by the examination of all kinds of objects that happen to present themselves; omens drawn from chance meetings with a rabbit, an eagle, etc.: The theory of apantomancy was that nothing happened by chance, including a bluebird that represented happiness and a black cat might bring bad luck (in some areas of the world, a black cat represents “good fortune”).

In ancient times such events were frequently interpreted by oracles, and their importance persisted through the Middle Ages, even up to modern times. From them have stemmed countless superstitions that many people still believe may bring them good or bad luck, though the interpretations may vary in different localities.

Divination by interpreting the appearance and behavior of spiders: Jack believed in arachnomancy and watched the spider spin its web to find out more about his future

Divination by interpreting altars: Mrs. Lawson read an interesting article about ariolatiomancy in which some people toured around various countries to view the Lord's tables in churches and understand what the future might bring to them.

Divination, or predicting, with numerology; as practiced by Greeks and Chaldeans: The Greeks would use arithmomancy to analyze the names of their warring enemies in order to determine their numerical values, and with this process, they thought they could predict the results of battles.

The Chaldeans divided their alphabet into three sections of seven letters and made a symbolic link to the seven planets to determine various arithmomancies which included numerical values of countries, individuals, and situations, all of which represented certain characteristics used for predicting future events.

Divination by inspection of the shoulders to determine whether a victim was suitable for sacrifice to the gods: In the adventure story, Jim read about armomancy, in which the king looked at the slain body of the enemy and decided that the dead body was fit for sacrificing.

Also defined as, “a manner of predicting the ability of mediumship by inspecting the shoulders of the prospective candidate.”

Divination with a shield by sitting on it within a magic circle and going into a trance; predictions from the devil: In the East Indies, aspidomancy is a type of ritual magic whereby the psychic draws a circle, sits in the middle, mutters incantations, falls into a trance state, and when back in a normal state knows the answers to the questions of the supplicants.

Another explanation states that it was a primitive form of divination in which an entranced sorcerer, seated in a magic circle, became inspired by the devil and upon awakening recounted the predictions revealed to him from that source.