The Wonderful World of Scrying -- Also called crystallomancy, scrying is a technique used by seers, psychics, and sorcerers, using crystals and gemstones in the divination of one's past, present and future. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Paranormal Phenomena] Reference
At last, in despair, I gave it up, and turned to the book on crystallomancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Gloved Hand] Reference
Hinduism, "Hopkins's" The Religions of India, "a work on crystallomancy, Mr. Lloyd Tuckey's standard work on" Hypnotism and. From Wordnik.com. [The Gloved Hand] Reference
Other paths of inquiry have led to the practice of, for example, cleromancy, sciomancy, crystallomancy, alphitomancy, and spodomancy, to name only a few. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
The other side of the coin is represented by gastromancy, which is not only a synonym for crystallomancy but also the term for divination by ventriloquism. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
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