Sagasu
Jul 25, 2004, 09:27 PM
Have you ever stopped to think about how many types of fortune telling there are/where? No? fucknut.. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_disapprove.gif
Well let me list some of them for you.
1. Catoptromancy - In ancient times the outcome of an illness was foretold by the appearance of a
sick person's face on a plate of burnished metal which had been suspended over a sacred stream.
2. Hydromancy - Symbols in a pool or stream suggested future events.
- Loaves of bread were given to Ino. If the loaf sank, the action meant the goddess accepted
the offering. If it floated to the surface, the goddess had rejected it. This practice became
"ducking the witch" to determine guilt or innocence.
3. Smoke-reading - Smoke rising from a sacrifice was a good omen if it rose vertically; a bad omen if
it were thick and slow to disperse.
4. Involuntary omens - It was believed sneezing, trembling, twitching, itching, and other involuntary
actions betrayed the future.
5. Astrology - The future was determined according to the movements of the planets through the
twelve signs of the Zodiac.
6. Chiromancy - The lines and other configurations of the human palm were consulted for signs of
events to come.
7. Necromancy - The future was disclosed through contact with the dead.
8. Alectryomancy - A chicken (rooster) was set down in a circle divided into 24 sections, each
containing a letter of the Greek alphabet and a seed. As the rooster ate the grains, the pattern
of the future was revealed. The letters corresponding to the missing seeds provided the
answer to the questions asked.
9. Dice-throwing - Used by Greek magicians to tell the future.
10. Bird flight - Patterns of take-off, flight, etc., were interpreted.
11. Entrail-reading - The innards of a fowl were thought portentous.
12. The Sound of Thunder - Each burst and interval had its meaning.
13. Spider's web - The design of each web revealed a different future.
14. Onirocriticism - This practice is the art of interpreting dreams.
15. Rhabdomancy - Hebrew art of throwing down a handful of sticks, rods, or twigs, and
"reading" the pattern they fall into. E.g., 23 Psalm
- "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me." is interpreted as he has cast the sticks and read good omens in them.
15. Crystalomancy - One can foretell the future with a crystal ball.
16. Rhapsodomancy - The opening at random a book of verses, usually the Bible.
17. Gastromancy - By listening to the rumblings of the belly, one can foretell the future.
18. Phrenology - One can make predictions by reading the bumps, bulges, and contours of the
skull.
Now that you have a basic understanding of the world of the future, you must undersatnd one. last. thing.
Your soul better belong to jesus, cause your ass belongs to me http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif
Well let me list some of them for you.
1. Catoptromancy - In ancient times the outcome of an illness was foretold by the appearance of a
sick person's face on a plate of burnished metal which had been suspended over a sacred stream.
2. Hydromancy - Symbols in a pool or stream suggested future events.
- Loaves of bread were given to Ino. If the loaf sank, the action meant the goddess accepted
the offering. If it floated to the surface, the goddess had rejected it. This practice became
"ducking the witch" to determine guilt or innocence.
3. Smoke-reading - Smoke rising from a sacrifice was a good omen if it rose vertically; a bad omen if
it were thick and slow to disperse.
4. Involuntary omens - It was believed sneezing, trembling, twitching, itching, and other involuntary
actions betrayed the future.
5. Astrology - The future was determined according to the movements of the planets through the
twelve signs of the Zodiac.
6. Chiromancy - The lines and other configurations of the human palm were consulted for signs of
events to come.
7. Necromancy - The future was disclosed through contact with the dead.
8. Alectryomancy - A chicken (rooster) was set down in a circle divided into 24 sections, each
containing a letter of the Greek alphabet and a seed. As the rooster ate the grains, the pattern
of the future was revealed. The letters corresponding to the missing seeds provided the
answer to the questions asked.
9. Dice-throwing - Used by Greek magicians to tell the future.
10. Bird flight - Patterns of take-off, flight, etc., were interpreted.
11. Entrail-reading - The innards of a fowl were thought portentous.
12. The Sound of Thunder - Each burst and interval had its meaning.
13. Spider's web - The design of each web revealed a different future.
14. Onirocriticism - This practice is the art of interpreting dreams.
15. Rhabdomancy - Hebrew art of throwing down a handful of sticks, rods, or twigs, and
"reading" the pattern they fall into. E.g., 23 Psalm
- "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me." is interpreted as he has cast the sticks and read good omens in them.
15. Crystalomancy - One can foretell the future with a crystal ball.
16. Rhapsodomancy - The opening at random a book of verses, usually the Bible.
17. Gastromancy - By listening to the rumblings of the belly, one can foretell the future.
18. Phrenology - One can make predictions by reading the bumps, bulges, and contours of the
skull.
Now that you have a basic understanding of the world of the future, you must undersatnd one. last. thing.
Your soul better belong to jesus, cause your ass belongs to me http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif