Sentence examples for practices of divination from inspiring English sources

Simple practices of divination are common to practical Hinduism.

Their religion employed elaborately organized cults and rituals, including the extensive practice of divination.

Through the practice of divination ("ramli") the identity of persons involved in witchcraft practices would be revealed to the healers who would then accuse certain villagers, often closely related to the persons afflicted with disease, as responsible for inflicting it through sorcery.

Besides prayers and invocations, means of communication with the divine include the interpretation of dreams and especially the practice of lubuko (divination) to consult the will of the ancestors before any important decision or to know the causes of misfortune.

Some also practice sikidy and other forms of divination, and provide spiritual advice on the best days or places to hunt, plant, shift camp, and other such events of daily life.

For example in the Catholic religion all forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.

There were many forms of divination.

Inca rituals included elaborate forms of divination and the sacrifice of humans and animals.

In indigenous religions, revelation is often associated with magical techniques of divination.

The rabbis strenuously objected to omens and other forms of divination because they considered them magic.

Providing estimates resorts as much to the art of divination as to rational considerations.