Meaning of brizomancy | Babel Free

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A form of Ancient Greek divination by the interpretation of dreams with the aid of the goddess Brizo; hence, divination by dreams.

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“Scaramouch took himself off and applied to all sorts of Divination for the purpose of discovering where the lost bottle was lying. He tried [...] Brizomancy, or by the nodding sleep[.]”

“The very fact that each specific method, or variant, had a name, testifies to the prevalence and widespread recognition of divinatory practices. The prophetic inspiration of Brizo, a goddess of sleep, gave rise to brizomancy.”

“A common name for succubus was Brizo, after the Greek Goddess of sleep whose title came from brizein, to enchant, and referred to a special kind of incubation known as brizomancy. Like the Babylonian dream-Goddess, Nanshe, Brizo brought prophetic dreams which were later called wet dreams.”

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