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List of Psychic Arts - Compiled by Gary L. Wimmer - www.garywimmer.com/psychic PSYCHIC ART DEFINITION 1 Abacomancy The art of foretelling future events by the observation of patterns of dust 2 from the air and sky, patterns, and other phenomena not normally visible in the sky 3 Alchemy Transmutation, dissolving or combining of base metals to form gold though chemical or processes 4 Divination by means of a picking grains of corn from a circle of letters 5 Divination with flour and baked goods such as fortune cookies 6 Alomancy A form of divination by using salt 7 Alphitomancy Divination using barley or cakes digestible by persons with a clear conscience but are unpleasant to others 8 Amniomancy Divination by using a caul or membrane which sometimes envelopes a child's head at birth 9 Divination using human entrails, often from human sacrifices 10 Anththroposcopy Divination by observing facial features 11 Apantomancy Divination of an object, but usually an animal, which presents itself by chance 12 Divination by numbers 13 Aromatherapy Holistic health practice of seeking to heal certain diseases or illnesses by inhaling scented steam or fragrances 14 Ashagalomancy A system of divination of casting small bones or , also known as Astraglomancy or Astragyromancy 15 Ancient system of divination based on the position of the planets and the Zodiac 16 Divination by studying the behaviour and flights of 17 Aura reading Understanding what the colours of the human aura mean 18 Austromancy Divination by the study of the 19 Axinomancy divination through the observation of how an ax or hatchet quivers, balances or points when driven into post 20 Divination by balancing arrows and/or examining the pattern formed as they fall 21 Divination using a book or the , also referred to as Stichomancy 22 Billet test Divination via an envelope 23 Bletonism Divination by currents 24 Botanomancy Divination by observing the burning of branches and leaves, and of the ashes 25 Divination by observing the fumes rising from poppies when thrown on live coals 26 Cartomancy Divination using a deck of playing cards or a Tarot deck 27 Cartopedy Divination by observing feet 28 Castronomancy Divination by looking into images on the surface of water in a glass or magical receptacle 29 Divination by gazing into a mirror, most often as it reflects moonlight 30 Causimomancy Divination by fire or by objects placed in it 31 Cephalomancy An ancient form of divination using the head of a goat or donkey 32 Ceraunoscopy Divination by examining the phenomena of the air, lightening and/or thunder 33 Ceromancy Divination from pouring metled wax into water 34 Chaomancy Divination through astral phenomena such as thunder, lightening, shape of , even comets 35 Chirognomy Divination by the study of the general hand formation 36 Chiromancy Palm reading 37 Circumambulism Ceremonial walking around an object or person to secure protection 38 Clairaudience The psychic ability to hear sounds and voices 39 Clairvoyance The psychic ability to see objects, persons, places or events regardless of time or distance 40 Cledonomancy Divination by use of words, chance remarks or events 41 Cleidomancy Divination by use of a suspended key 42 Divination practiced by throwing beans, small bones, dice, stones, etc. for casting lots

www.garywimmer.com/psychic List of Psychic Arts - Compiled by Gary L. Wimmer - www.garywimmer.com/psychic PSYCHIC ART DEFINITION 43 Clidomancy / CleidomancyDivination using a dangling key 44 Cloud Divination by observing the power of the clouds 45 Divination practised with a sieve and a pair of tongs or shears 46 Critomancy Divination of cakes, especially of barley 47 Cromniomancy Divination using onion sprouts 48 Crystallmoncy Divination by gazing into a crystal rock or crystal ball 49 Cyclomancy Divination from a turning wheel 50 Dactylomancy Divination by means of finger rings or dangling rings 51 Daphnomancy Divination from laurel branches crackling in a fire 52 Demonomancy Divination by the study of demons and their effects 53 Dendromancy Divination using either oak or mistletoe 54 Dermography Psyshic phenomenon of skin writing 55 Divination using a forked stock for discovering water, metal and/or minerals, in or under ground 56 Eromancy Divination using air and water 57 Extrasensory perceptionESP - Knowledge of an experience or a response to an external event apart from the five senses 58 Exorcism The process of expelling or removing an evil spirit by religious ceremony 59 Gastromancy Divination by ventriloquism or voices from the stomach or by means of glasses or round transparent vessels 60 Geloscopy Divination by means of laughter 61 Genethlialogy Divination as to the destinies of one newly born by casting nativities via stars at birth 62 Divination by dots made at random on paper 63 Graphology Handwriting analysis 64 Divination from a person walking in a circle who stumbles at points marked with letters 65 Halomancy Divination by throwing salts into a fire 66 Haruspicy Divination by examination of the livers and entrails of animals, usually sacrificed 67 Heiromancy Divination by observation of sacrificed things 68 Hepatoscopy Divination of entrails of animals 69 Hippomancy Divination from stamping and neighing of certain white horses, often kept in consecrated groves 70 Divination by color, ebb or flow of water, or from ripples and patterns formed by pebbles dropped in a pool 71 Iching An ancient chinese system of oracular divination 72 Icthyomancy Divination by studying or reading the entrails of fish 73 Kephalonomancy Divination that is practiced by making diver on the baked head of an ass 74 Lampodomancy Divination involving indications from a flame, its form, color or movements, of an oil lamp or torch 75 Divination by dropping stones into water 76 Leconomancy Divination by pouring oil into water 77 Libranomancy / LibomancyDivination through examination of smoke from incense 78 Divination by reading patterns formed from tossed stones or precious jems 79 Lychnomancy Divination by reading flames from a candle 80 Margaritomancy Divination using a pearl or bouncing pearls 81 Materialization The appearance of spirits in material form 82 Metagnomy Divination using visions received in a trance state 83 Meteoromancy Divination from meteors 84 Divination by reading of character using the lines if the forehead

www.garywimmer.com/psychic List of Psychic Arts - Compiled by Gary L. Wimmer - www.garywimmer.com/psychic PSYCHIC ART DEFINITION 85 Moleosophy Divination by reading the various moles on one's body 86 Molybdomancy Divination by interpreting shapes produced by dropping metal, uysually molten lead, into water 87 Monen A Kabbalic term for divination by computing time and the observation of the heavenly bodies 88 Muscle reading Reading unconscious muscle movements 89 Myomancy Divination involving movements of rats or mice 90 Divination by the practice of conjuring evil spirits 91 Divination by studying numbers and names 92 Oenomancy / OinomancyDivination by appearance of, sediment in, and/or patterns formed by wine 93 Oil scrying Babylonian method of divination from water or oil placed in a darkened vessel 94 Omphalomancy Divination by the navel and umbilical cord 95 Divination by which the symbolic and/or prophetic properties of are interpreted 96 Onimancy Divination based on the observation of the angel Uriel 97 Divination by names 98 Onychomancy Divination by fingernails reflecting the sun's rays 99 Oomancy Divination by the outer and inner forms of 100 Ophiomancy A system of divination based on the color and movements of serpents 101 Divination by birds and patterns formed while in flight 102 Divination by studying lines and patterns in hands 103 Pegomancy Divination using a sacred pool, spring, or bubbling fountain 104 Pendulum scrying Divination by studying movements of a pendulum 105 Pessomancy Divination with beans or pebbles marked with symbols or colors 106 Phrenology The divination of reading head formation and/or bumps on a skull 107 Phyllorhodomancy Divination with rose leaves 108 Physiognomy Divination by the means of physical features, especially the face 109 Knowledge of future events 110 Premonition A vision of warning of future events 111 Prenestine lots Divination by lots, often using poppy seeds 112 Providence Divinatory from the personification of prophetic or mantic talents, often with as a female Deity 113 Psephomancy Divination by pebbles drawn from a heap 114 Psychography A form of mysterious writing having a divinatory nature 115 Psychokenesis The movement of objects using the mind, without the use of physical means 116 Psychometry The ability to acquire knowledge of people, places or objects by touching an object associated with it 117 Divination by fire or flames, often assisted by substances throw onto flames 118 Radiesthesia A further developed branch of the divination of dowsing through indicators such as rods and pendulums 119 Divination by using a stick, wand or rod 120 Rhasodomancy Divination by a randomly chosen word, verse or passage from a work of the great poet 121 Runes Divination by reading symbols and characters carved into stones 122 Scapulomancy Divination by the interpretation of the cracks in the shoulder blades on animals burned in sacrificial fires 123 Scatomancy Divination by the examination of egested food, feces and/or excrement 124 Sciomancy Divination using a spirit guide, a method usually employed by channelers 125 Scrying Divination by concentrating on or staring at an object having a shiny surface until a vision appears 126 The practice of Shamans, usually ritualistic, magical or religious in nature

www.garywimmer.com/psychic List of Psychic Arts - Compiled by Gary L. Wimmer - www.garywimmer.com/psychic PSYCHIC ART DEFINITION 127 Shell scrying Divination using a shell, usually by listening to sounds of the ocean and/or voices 128 Sideromancy Divination by movement of straws placed on hot iron 129 Smoke scrying Divination used by the Indians in which the reader studies patterns formed by rising smoke 130 Sortilege Divination by the casting or drawing of lots, similar to Cleromancy 131 Spodomancy Divination by means of the cinders, ashes or soot from sacrificial fires. Like Tephramancy or Tuphramancy 132 Stichomancy Divination by passages in books 133 Stolisomancy Divination by the way a person dresses himself 134 Sycomancy Divination performed by writing messages on tree leaves 135 Tarot Divination by cards based on symbology from Greeks and myths and legends of other ancient cultures 136 Tasseomancy The psychic art of reading tea leaves 137 Telekinesis Telepathic sounds and voices projected to people 138 Telepathy Psychic communications between individuals 139 Teleportation Objects moved by supernatural forces 140 Tephramancy Divination by ashes obtained from the burning of tree bark, often after human sacrifice by fire 141 Theomancy Ancient form of divination by believed to be divinely inspired 142 Theriomancy Divination by beasts 143 Tiromancy Divination using cheese 144 Trembling Divination through hand trembling 145 Voodoo Magical practice considered to be a form of black magic but also is considered a religion to some 146 Withccraft The practice of performing acts with the aid of a spirit 147 Xylomancy Divination from wood or dried sticks, either their shape when collected or their appearance while burning 148 Zoomancy Divination by observing the behavior of animals

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