Mankind has invented hundreds of divination methods: ways of seeing into the future or foretelling the future. The following list is a combination of the most well known, the least well known, and some that just sound very strange…..

• Cartomancy: by cards
• Cephaleonomancy: by boiling a donkey’s head
• Ceraunoscopy: by thunder and lightning
• Ceromancy: by dripping wax into water
• Choriomancy: by pig bladders
• Chresmomancy: by the ravings of lunatics
• Cryptomancy: by omens
• Crystal Ball gazing: by seeing shapes in a crystal ball
• Dendromancy: by trees. Yews, Oaks and Mistletoe considered especially significant
• Deuteroscopy: by second glance or double-take
• Dictiomancy: by randomly opening a dictionary
• Dowsing: by using a stick to find water or respond to questions
• Dreaming: by interpreting the contents of dreams
• Dririmancy: by dripping blood (or Drimimancy –by (ahem) bodily fluids!)
• Genethlialogy: by birth dates
• Graphology: by studying handwriting
• Hakata: by bones or dice
• Hieromancy: by studying the entrails of sacrifices
• Horoscopy: by studying the placement of the stars at a person’s birth
• Hydatomancy: by rainwater
• I Ching: by reading the patterns formed when a group of 50 sticks are thrown
• Lampadomancy: by flame
• Lithomancy: by gems or stones
• Margaritomancy: by bouncing pearls
• Necromancy: by speaking to the dead
• Nephomancy by clouds
• Numerology: by numbers
• Ololygmancy: by the howling of dogs
• Palmistry: by reading the lines on the palm of a person’s hand
• Rune casting: By interpreting the runes on a set of stones that have been cast (Learn to make your own Rune stones here.)
• Scarpomancy: by old shoes
• Scatomancy: by excrement
• Scrying: to look into a reflective object such as black glass, a dark mirror or water
• Selenomancy: by the moon
• Skatharomancy: by beetle tracks
• Solarmancy: by the sun
• Tasseography: by tea leaves (we have a fun DIY on this one!)