-mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical

Divination to determine the precise or favorable time for some action: Chronomancy is also a foretelling or prediction of a lucky or unlucky day!

Chronomancy was formerly practiced especially in China.

Divination with the hands. Also chiromancy (q.v.).

An ancient system of divination based on the good or evil presage of certain words uttered without premeditation when people come together in any way.

It also regulated the words to be used on particular occasions. Cicero stated that the Pythagoreans were very attentive to these presages, and according to Pausanius, it was a favorite method of divination at Smyrna, where the oracles of Apollo were interpreted.

Divination with omens or lucky charms, by listening to utterances of mantic significance, or by interpreting unplanned events; such as, to predict remarks of a conversation before it begins.

Divination by use of a key or keys.

Divination, or fortune telling, with sea shells.

Divination by spreading grain or cake dough over sacrificed victims; for personal predications, observations were made of the unusual behavior of grains, dough, or the cakes themselves.

Divination with names, significant happenings, or missing persons which were written on onions, planted, and observed to see which one would sprout first.

The onion which sprouted most rapidly indicated that the person whose name had been inscribed on it was enjoying vigorous health.

Another application was that wishes would come true if one burnt onion skins on a fire. Sometimes the onions had to be placed on the altar at Christmas before they had any divine significance.

Divination by using onions.

Divination with secret signs, words, etc.; some unrevealed method used by mantics.

Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

Divination with thrown dice or with cubed bones.

Divination with some revolving device; such as, a wheel or revolving circle.

The “wheel-of-fortune” found at carnivals or on the TV “Wheel of Fortune” are based on this concept. Cyclomancy has survived in various parlor games; such as, “spin the bottle”.

Perceiving psychic visions on a clear, shiny water surface in a cup instead of a crystal.

Divination with finger rings “. . . by holding a ring suspended by a fine thread over a round table on the edge of which were a number of marks with the 24 [Greek] letters of the alphabet. The ring was consecrated with a great deal of mystery.”