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Source: Heinrich Stürzl / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons We can define divination as using a systematic approach in order to try to gain insight into a situation or problem (Peek, 1991). In the ...

In the late 1740s, Samuel Meadwell arrived in London. A “raw country fellow” from Northamptonshire, he had come to work as a distiller’s apprentice and hoped to make his fortune. When a pair of women ...

A large number of different forms of divination are used in Cameroon in West Africa. A widely used form involves tarantula-like spiders (e.g., Hysterocrates robustus Pocock, 1899) or land-crabs (e.g., ...

Folklorist Norman (Faerie Stones) delivers a detailed manual on how to use the druidic Ogham alphabet to gain insight into the future. She discusses the alphabet’s first appearance on stones in ...

Young, urban Chinese are going gaga for divination techniques, be they Western methods like astrology and tarot cards, or homegrown practices such as the bazi, or Eight Trigrams: eight Taoist ...