Intriguing Words – 4th May 2008

Here are some intriguing words I felt I wanted to share! For the first post from “Intriguing Words” I have chosen to list the literary forms of fortune-telling:

Literary Divination

Name                       Divination By…

Bilbliomancy                 books, or by verses of the Bible

Graptomancy               handwriting

(gapomancy)

Logomancy                   words

Onomomancy               from names or the letters of a name

(nomancy                      (number of vowels, etc.)

onomancy)

Rhapsodomancy           picking a passage of poetry at random

Stichomancy                 lines of verse in books chosen at random

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  2. Wow thanks for sharing this article.

  3. u kno it

    These aren’t even that interesting better words next time please!!!

  4. Will try better next time! Hopefully the next intriguing words will be a little more exciting… there is just so many to choose from you know! I blame the dictionary myself! Thanks for reading and your comment is appreciated.

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