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I suppose reading tea leaves or lines on your palm is pretty strange too, when you think about it, but these take the cake.
10 Weird Ways to Predict the Future
1. Anthropomancy – divination by the entrails of men.
2. Armomancy – divination by the shoulders of beasts.
3. Belomancy – divination by arrows.
4. Gastromancy - divination by stomach noises.
5. Gyromancy – divination by walking in a circle until the subject falls over from dizziness.
6. Myomancy – divination by movements of mice.
7. Omphalomancy – divination by knots on the umbilical cord.
8. Onychomancy – divination by fingernails.
9. Rhapsodomancy – divination by random selection of a line of poetry.
10. Tyromancy – divination by cheese.
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10 can’t be real. i can give to the possibility of some people trying some of the other numbers at some point in history but 10 cannot be real.
posted by Claire on 7-7-2008 at 2:55 pm
Ah but Claire..have you not looked at a piece of cheese and predicted what it might do to your digestion if you ate it?
;)
Why is the “Oompa Loompa” song in my head?
posted by mrs.djs on 7-7-2008 at 3:43 pm
I looked it up and sure enough – Tiromancy is a form of divination that seeks to know the future by examining how curds form during cheesemaking. Also spelled tyromancy.
It is commonly referred to as the art of divining the future through the study of mouldy cheese.
posted by Kelly on 7-7-2008 at 4:11 pm
Great Post!
Here’s some more I just cut and pasted from someone’s website:
“acultomancy divination using needles
aeromancy divination by means of the weather
ailuromancy divination by watching cats’ movements
alectormancy divination by sacrificing a rooster
alectryomancy divination by watching a rooster gather corn kernels
aleuromancy divination using flour or meal
alomancy divination using salt
alphitomancy divination using loaves of barley
alveromancy divination using sounds
ambulomancy divination by taking a walk
amniomancy divination by examining afterbirth
anthomancy divination using flowers
anthracomancy divination using burning coals
anthropomancy divination using human entrails
apantomancy divination using objects at hand
arithmancy divination using numbers
armomancy divination by examining one’s shoulders
aspidomancy divination by sitting and chanting within a circle
astragalomancy divination using dice or knucklebones
astromancy divination using stars
austromancy divination using wind
axinomancy divination using an axe or hatchet
batraquomancy divination using frogs”
As for the cheese-o-mancy, of course its true. Apparently it works by offering pieces of cheese to a rat, rodent, or other cheese-eating animal, with each piece of cheese being the represention of something else. Logically, the first piece of cheese the rat ate would be your fate. Or maybe its the last piece….. Either way, its your fate.
posted by Florida on 7-7-2008 at 4:20 pm
You can’t beat: ANOMANCIA (anusmancy)
“I said the consulted should sit in a photocopier/Xerox. In the sheet of paper his/her ass-hole would appear. The fortune teller would then read on the folds of the orifice. The most deep wrinkles represent the past. The most superficial wrinkles represent the future. If spots would appear they would not be objects of reading but dirt.”
(I’m not inventing it)
posted by nADIE on 7-7-2008 at 4:43 pm
I imagine the prediction you come up with during gyromancy will usually be, “I’m going to fall over.”
posted by Matt on 7-7-2008 at 5:17 pm
it’s boring
posted by nicazzo on 7-8-2008 at 8:04 pm
LOL, Works for me. Now if we could just Get Dictator Bush out of office.
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
posted by Jim Jones on 7-8-2008 at 8:26 pm
Don’t forget ‘Science.’ Y’know, the only such method that ever produced results at better than chance.
posted by David G. on 7-8-2008 at 8:29 pm
Gastromancy is what I do to predict the future. Just hope I didn’t eat, or else I won’t have a future.
posted by ComplexSearch on 7-8-2008 at 9:27 pm
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Many doctors actually use Palm/hand Reading to determine ailments such as anemia, lack of calcium, diet disorders, acid reflux, vitamen A toxicity, and more. There are markings on the hands that show connections to reproductive organs, liver, intenstines , joint issues not necessarily on the knuckles, as well.
Found this fascinating an article by yahoo about reading the body signs:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/7-secrets-your-bodys-trying-to-tell-you-501265/
Thanks for letting me of other ways for readings! I usually do eye iris readings too.
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