Sentence examples for forms of divination from inspiring English sources
There were many forms of divination.
Inca rituals included elaborate forms of divination and the sacrifice of humans and animals.
The rabbis strenuously objected to omens and other forms of divination because they considered them magic.
Popular legend also credits him with the invention of writing and sewing and of several forms of divination.
To obtain answers to these questions, people turned to oracles and to other forms of divination, such as consulting seers or calendars of lucky and unlucky days.
The essay applauds "the great resurgence of interest in mysticism, eastern philosophies, ancient forms of divination and healing," and "forms of healing that lie outside the mechanistic approach of conventional medicine".
The scene in which he holds forth on the art of war is Satan's own sermon: "War is the truest form of divination.
The most important form of divination was haruspicy, or hepatoscopy the study of the details of the viscera, especially the livers, of sacrificial animals.
A badger claw hung around the neck gave the wearer the power to keep secrets and the badger once played a crucial role in a form of divination: one outlandish brew contained skull fragments from a hanged man, tongues of adders, graveyard worms, toad hearts, and seven drops of badger blood.
Next, I reached out to Colette Brown, a clairvoyant who's previously written a book that touches on bibliomancy, a form of divination using sacred books that dates back hundreds of years.
