hydromancy

Definitions

Divination by water or other liquid.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use⟳ of it; and we still admire the like⟳ wonderful prognosticators.”

“Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]”

“Hydromancy, like⟳ many other methods of divination, seems to have⟳ originated in Babylonia and reached the Greco-Roman world via Egypt, in the first century b.c. or earlier.”

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