-mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical

1. Divination by observation and the interpretation of burning straw: Jack needed some straw and a red-hot iron to perform sideromancy in order to study the smoke patterns and sparks made by the burning straw on the hot iron.
2. Etymology; from Latin, "Sidero-" refers to “stars”. or from Greek, refers to “iron”..

Divination by observing a human body: Doug read that to prophesy the future, it was possible with the aid of somatomancy by looking at different features of a person's body, like the shape, color, height, etc.

Divination by interpreting spasms or the twitches of a body: Mary found out that spasmatomancy was helpful in foretelling the illness of a potential sufferer by his or her convulsions or uncontrolled contractions that occurred.

Divination by the observation of animal droppings or feces: In addition, spatalamancy also involves the analysis of their skins and bones in order to prophesy the future.

There is a “modern” divination, "splatomancy" that utilizes the patterns of bird droppings on a car.

Divination by observing or examining the shoulder blades of an animal: In the newspaper article Joe was reading, a man was said to have used the aid of spatulamancy by scrutinizing burned, cracked, or charred animal shoulder blades to find out if he was going to win in the lottery!

Divination by utilizing a crystal ball: Spheromancy involves the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc.

Spheromancy, or crystal gazing, may be used by practitioners, sometimes called "readers" or "seers", for a variety of purposes including predicting distant or future events, to give character analysis, to tell fortunes, or to help a client make choices about current situations and problems.

Divination with the use of spindles: With the help of sphondulomancy, Olivia watched the pin in the spinning wheel which twisted and wound the threads in order to find out if her future husband would be rich!

Divination in the form of anthropomancy: Splanchomancy was practiced by ancient Etruscans involving the study of the entrails of sacrificed victims.

Divination by examining ashes, especially those of a sacrifice or victim; tephramancy; tuphramancy: Spodomancy is a method of fortune-telling by means of the cinders, ashes or soot from sacrificial fires. The specific type of spodomancy that used patterns formed in the ashes of burned offerings made to the gods was often called "tephromancy".

According to a Middle Ages method, hollow, oblong cinders were known as "coffins", indicating a coming death in the family. Oval cinders, called "cradles", were indicative of the advent of a child. Round cinders, called "purses", indicated prosperity, and heart-shaped ones were the sign of a lover.

In Scotland it was said that if a clot of soot fell down the chimney during a wedding breakfast, it was a portent of bad luck for the newlywed couple.

Divination through the observations of the elements: With the aid of stareomancy, people of ancient times used fire, earth, air, and water to foretell their future.

Divination by observing seeds found in dung: Since Sam had cattle on his farm, he decided to try out stercomancy looking at the seeds in the manuere or excrements produced by his cows in order to foretell his future on the farm. or

Divination by examining the breastbone: Jane read in her dictionary that sternomancy also referred to the interpretation of the visible marks that could be seen from the breast to the abdomen of an individual.

A way of telling fortunes by opening up a book and selecting randomly any passage: Stichomancy is another form of bibliomancy that utilizes a random passage or line from a book for divining the future.

Divination by examining the writings or carvings on tree bark: Alice wondered what kind of tree would be best to perform stignomancy where the carving on the bark would disclose to her what her future husband would look like!

Divination by opening the works of Homer or Virgil and reading the first verses seen which are considered prophetic: Adam chose a book by Homer to perform toicheomancy in which he read the first oracular assertion he came across.