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aquitted by a court of law-- but forever found guilty in the court of public opinion!
Like a modern day case of bloody murder.. Just goes to show you there is nothing new under the sun!-- only there is no little ditty about OJ yet.
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Dear Sparteye: Axinomancy could not have told Lizzie Borden who her judges would be. And she did not need to divine her choice of defense counsel. I didn't know until I looked at encyclopedia just now that her real mother died when she was age 2. Maybe her stepmother was out of Grimm's fairy tales. I wonder what bearing her father's will had on the disposition of his estate, and if Lizzie knew what was in the will.
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rabdomanzia (= rabdomancy, I suppose)
This is not fortune telling, but has the same kind of root. In fact, there are people that pretend to be able to guess where the water is in the underground, by walking and holding in their hands a Y-shaped stick: when the stick "moves", it should be a good place to drill a well.
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aleuromancy, Divination by means of flour. chiromancy, Palmistry Alphitomancy, Divination using a leaf of barley. Tasseomancy, The art of reading tea leaves. Lecanomancy, Divination by throwing stones into water Critomancy, divination using cakes Dactylomancy, divination with rings Molybdomancy, divination by dropping metal into water Omphalomancy, divination by the navel The only word I know for what a water witch does is dowsing, but rabdomancy is: Divination by means of rods or wands. I learn something new every day...thanks! here is a website with a bunch of detailed information about all the different -mancies: http://www.paralumun.com/tasseomancy.htm
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...not to be confused with ailuromancy, divination by slinging of cats. <g>
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<Critomancy, divination using cakes>
of flour? of soap?
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not to be confused with ailuromancy, divination by slinging of cats.
..and ayleuromancy???
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...ascending to godhood by number of posts?
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>and ayleuromancy?
that would fall into the bailiwick of Faldage and ASp.
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" rabdomanzia (= rabdomancy, I suppose)
This is not fortune telling, but has the same kind of root. In fact, there are people that pretend to be
able to guess where the water is in the underground, by walking and holding in their hands aY-shaped
stick: when the stick "moves", it should be a good place to drill a well."
Rhabdomancy
Amazing what some people will believe. A long time ago the Boston Herald columnist Bill Cunningham had a friend who was such an accomplished "dowser" that he was able to locate a place to dig a well in Bermuda by pointing his dowsing rod at a map of Bermuda Now, that's a remarkable skill.
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