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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread words related to forecasting and divination #161409 08/08/2006 12:20 PM Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 4 SF Bay Area Laura_Kennedy stranger Laura_Kennedy stranger Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 4 SF Bay Area Are you going to include Chiromancy? Also known as palmistry, this is now more accurately described as Hand Analysis, which is, ironically, actually NOT a predictive art. I'm a book editor who recently edited a ms. on the subject, and I learned to read hands in order to edit the book! It actually tells the subject about his or her psychological/emotional makeup. And it is remarkably accurate--take it from a former skeptic. A lifelong compulsive reader, I've read the back of cereal boxes, milk cartons, the headlines of the tabloids along the checkout line, and now hands. (The book comes out in October of 2007.) Laura Kennedy ------------- Kennedy & Sanderson Editorial Services Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words related to forecasting and divination #161410 08/08/2006 10:04 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Quote: And it is remarkably accurate--take it from a former skeptic. Ever subject it to a good double blind test? There's $1,000,000 in it for you if you can pass. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Divination in The National Lampoon #161411 08/14/2006 6:48 PM Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 3 timbabwe stranger timbabwe stranger Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 3 Haruspicy, Necromancy ... I first encountered these words in The National Lampoon. In their first three years, when the Harvard influence was still strong, their regular Horoscope column featured a different form of Divination each month. So for Haruspex, there would be a description (stinking pile of sheep guts) and some vaguely worded prediction aimed at the satiric target of the day (usually Spiro Agnew or Henry Kissinger). Divination by birds, cloud-shapes, I Ching: The Lampoon provided the foundation of my magical education, unsurpassed until we all took Sibyl Trelawney's class. Tim Szeliga -- I am pedantically obligated to state that there is no apostrophe in Finnegans Wake, by Jame's Joyce, author of Dubliner's and Ulysse's. ---Tim Szeliga Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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