At last he made a sign that this kind of divination was ended; and pronounced that the Khan's talisman was not in possession of any man.
Divination by the relative position of the planets seems to have been in part at least of foreign growth and comparatively recent introduction among the Hindus; (he explains this to refer to the Alexandrian Greeks).
And now," said he, "let us try the divination of the earth.
Castile included astrology among other forms of divination subject to the penalties of the Partidas.
Another penitential of the period prescribes twoscore days or a year for divination or diabolical incantations, but seven years if a woman threatens another with sorcery, to be reduced to four if she is poor.
This method of divination involved the invocation of spirits, and was wholly unlawful, yet it was employed without scruple.
The question of oneiroscopy, or divination by dreams, was a puzzling one.
Saving the Etruscan haruspicium and the omens derived from sacrificial victims, Hellenic and Italiote divination had little to distinguish it from that of the Teutons.
John of Salisbury endeavors to prove that no reliance is to be placed on them; Joseph and Daniel were inspired, and short of inspiration no divination from dreams is to be trusted.
Divination in all its forms was universally practised.
I might collect these and many similar arguments, if that year had not already passed by which lying divination has promised, and deceived vanity has believed.
This is the serious and scientific explanation of the little-understood and less-comprehended action of various forms of divination having for their object the throwing of a little light upon the occult.
The handle of the cup represents the consultant and is akin to the 'house' in divination by the cards.
Undoubtedly one of the simplest, most inexpensive and, as the experience of nearly three centuries has proved, most reliable forms of divinationwithin its own proper limits, is that of reading fortunes in tea-cups.
Of all these forms perhaps divination by tea-leaves is the simplest, truest, and most easily learned.
There is, of course, a scientific reason for all forms of divination practised without hope or promise of reward.
Introduction to the Art of Divination from Tea-Leaves 13 II.
She was eminently susceptible of the elation of pride, the fervid glow of success, but her tender heart melted in sympathetic divination of all that this was to him who had sought it so long, and so unabashed by defeat.
The mountaineer, leaning on his gun by the rail-fence, looked through the driving snow with the lights of divination kindling in his eyes, seeing it all, feeling its meaning as never before.
Some of your old tricks of divination again," she said laughing.
We may be sure the Greeks were mistaken in supposing that it was Amphiaraus who instituted divination by dreams.
Many Stoics, though highly disciplined in Logic, upheld the practices of Divination and Astrology.
Their divination was supposed to be the result of experience and observation; and though not destitute of divine direction or concurrence, depended chiefly on human contrivance.
Here, too, as in Scotland forms of divination are practised by some people on this important evening.
The many forms of divination resorted to at Hallowe'en are appropriate to the beginning of a New Year.
M202) In Ireland the Hallowe'en bonfires would seem to have died out, but the Hallowe'en divination has survived.
An old woman told a lady that she had tried this mode of divination in her youth, that the name of Archibald "came up as it were from the very ground," and that Archibald sure enough was the name of her husband.
Again, divination was practised by means of a cake called barm-breac, in which a nut and a ring were baked.
M199) These forms of divination in the house were practised by the company in a body; but the following had to be performed by the person alone.
M193 Divinationresorted to in Celtic countries at Hallowe'en.
In County Leitrim, also, down to near the end of the nineteenth century various forms of divination were practised at Hallowe'en.
The reputation of the Laplanders for skill in magic and divination is of very early date, and in Finland is not yet extinct.
During his divination the wizard fell into a state of trance or ecstasy, his soul being held to run at large to pursue its inquiries.
It surely does not require divination to tell a diplomatic agent that he has served on a foreign mission," said the Chevalier, with a sneer.
What a triumph to my skill in divination as I heard the Friar's loud voice overtopping the gushing flood, while he exhorted his beasts in the most energetic fashion!
One must not reject everything that has not the stamp of reason upon it; and even what I have listened to to-day, absurd as it is, has not shaken my faith in the divination of the cards.
I hesitated, a prophetic divination in my mind that I stood in a mist at the parting of life's ways.
Well then," I was beginning, half placated at the apparent flattery, but stopped with a suddendivination of her meaning.
His first thought was of his strange luck the night before, and of disappointment that he had not had the dream of divination that he had looked for.
It was quite natural, therefore, that they should return from their abstract form of divination to the table and their cards.
A sudden revelation of his partner's manner the night before struck him now with the cruelty of a blow; a sudden intelligence, perhaps the very divination he had sought, flashed upon him like lightning!
Divination by the rod was also practised by the Egyptians.
Divination by cards, so great a favourite among the moderns, is, of course, a modern science; as cards do not yet boast an antiquity of much more than four hundred years.
The following list of the various species of divination formerly in use, is given by Gaule in his Magastromancer, and quoted in Hone's Year-Book, p.
Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.
And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the price of divination in their hands.
For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful divination in the midst of the children of Israel.
There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel.
And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flatteringdivination within the house of Israel.
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