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While looking for some hogwash words I found tyromancy. The
"-mancy" portion suggests divination, fortune telling, but what with?
I will post again with the answer later in the day. And does anyone else have any other surprising -mancy examples? Or practice any -mancies themselves?
and yes, I do know the limerick about the nancy boy in Khartoum
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well, a tyro is a novice or a beginner... so, divination with newbies' entrails?
I'm amazed with how many of these there are; here's a couple that I've collected [wonders if there's a word for collecting 'mancies']:
cartomancy - fortune-telling by the use of playing cards
ichthyomancy - fortunetelling with fish offal
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Tyromancy might be predicting how long you will live if you have Firestone/Bridgestone tires.
Or it might refer to predictions made by novice occultists.
Tyromancy - divination by patterns formed in coagulating cheese. Or maybe by bad dreams allegedly caused by eating too much welsh rabbit.
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Tyromancy - divination by patterns formed in coagulating cheese it was blue cheese!
Congrats Dr. Bill. What happens if you eat some of the cheese cos you got hungry waiting for it to coagulate? Does it affect the fortune telling? "I'm sorry - you were going to marry a beautiful princess, but my friend here just ate her." Sounds like a hovel scene from Monty Python.
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Necromancy - communication with the dead for purposes of divining the future
...and will someone PM me this limerick? I feel so out of the loop...
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Maxomancy: The ability to consistently divine the incorrect answers in Hogwash games. 
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...and will someone PM me this limerick? I feel so out of the loop...
I also.
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Yo, tambien. (Me, too.)
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Oh, Jeez-o-peas would ya look at that. I'm a journeymancy now.
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xeromancy: marriage  and congrats, consuelo!!!
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