-
practices bibliomancy using the
pages of
Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe. This is a good
example of intertextuality,
since Crusoe himself uses
bibliomancy in...
- in 405 AD. The
texts were used for
divination in a
primitive form of
bibliomancy,
which came much later.
Though loosely described as books, the second...
- classics. The
latest research suggests that he may in fact have used
bibliomancy for this—randomly
selecting a book of
history or
prophecy and taking...
- The
Sortes Vergilianae (Virgilian Lots) is a form of
divination by
bibliomancy in
which advice or
predictions of the ****ure are
sought by interpreting...
-
Ancient Greece portal Poetry portal Literature portal Achaeans (Homer)
Bibliomancy Catalogue of
Ships Creophylus of
Samos Cyclic Poets Deception of Zeus...
-
Sortes Homericae (Latin for "Homeric lots"), a type of
divination by
bibliomancy,
involved drawing a
random sentence or line from the
works of
Homer (usually...
- below,
influenced by Gr**** belemnon, 'javelin', or belonē, 'needle')
bibliomancy → see
chartomancy biorhythmic divination: by
biorhythms bletonism/bletonomancy...
- romanized: falnameh, lit. 'omen/divination book')
covers two
forms of
bibliomancy (fortune-telling
using a book) used
historically in Iran, Turkey, and...
- (which
carried a
table for guidance) and poetry, as a
development of
bibliomancy. One
example for this is this Qur'an from Gwalior, India,
which includes...
-
reciting their favorite Hafez poems. Many
Iranians use
Divan of
Hafez for
bibliomancy.
Iranian families usually have a
Divan in
their house, and when they...
