They also believed lodestones to be an important factor in geomancy, otherwise known as feng shui. From Wordnik.com. [Weird Stones] Reference
If these signs appear in some earthly body such as wood, iron or polished stone, it is called "geomancy," if in water "hydromancy," if in the air "aeromancy," if in fire. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Strike me a board of geomancy and find out what is come of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The beats are part of an ancient science of my country called geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Angelique Kidjo and "The Sound of the Drum"] Reference
“Verily, this King understandeth geomancy: blessed be He who hath gifted him!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Feng Shui is also called "spatial geomancy" or "alignment to nature of man" I remembered. From Wordnik.com. [America Can't Win At War: "You Can't Handle The Truth," Asian Expert Says] Reference
The placement of the monastery on the land was fully in accordance with the rules of Tibetan geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Nalendra Monastery] Reference
Answered Wird Khan, “True, O my son, but whence learnedest thou geomancy and thou young of years?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
‘Take thy tablets of geomancy and throw a figure, and tell us the issue of my affair and what will befal-me.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
From his loin cloth he took the three digital bones of an enemy and proceeded to discover the whereabouts by geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
For the villain had a brother yet more villainous than himself, and a greater adept in necromancy, geomancy, and astromancy. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran Winter] Reference
In 1992 one of Asia's biggest brokerages, CLSA of Hong Kong, put out a market forecast based on feng shui, or Chinese geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
"Party members are worshiping Buddhas and practicing astrology, divination, geomancy and physiognomy," admits the People's Daily. From Wordnik.com. [Apocalypse When] Reference
Personally I tend to file the budget under 'Pseudo-science' as the examination of its portents appears to be a fiscal form of geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [The week that was] Reference
In the outer order, the student learns a great deal about the elements, the qabbalah, alchemy, astrology, geomancy and many aspects of high magic. From Wordnik.com. [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference
This Marzavan, among other studies, had from his youth been much addicted to judicial astrology, geomancy, and other secret arts, wherein he became exceedingly skilful. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
This Marzavan, among other studies, had from his youth been much addicted to judicial astrology, geomancy, and the like secret arts, wherein he became exceedingly skilful. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights] Reference
The theme of geomancy appears again in Chen's The Heirloom. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Stratonice, with an addition of Eastern mystery such as geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
(sandboard on which the Arabs practise geomancy and notation) and look and search. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
This oriental form of geomancy that tells of ways to attract good fortune isn't much. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
Walking the Dragons adds another dimension to understanding the principles of geomancy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
= (Science of the sand) our geomancy, see vol.iii. 269, and D'Herbelot's sub.v. Raml or Reml. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Pertaining to geomancy, the art of divining future events by means of signs connected with the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Palamon and Arcite] Reference
Science, rescued from the hand of astrology, geomancy, alchemy, began her real life with the Renaissance. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots] Reference
Science, rescued from the hands of astrology, geomancy, alchemy, began her real life with the Renaissance. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference
His purpose - to show how events in China of yore had been influenced to a large extent by this art of geomancy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Chan, who provided geomancy services for Wang, said she decided to leave him her estate in a 2006 will after they became lovers. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
Hart's sculptural arrangements can be regarded as a method of geomancy that harmonizes and balances the energies of an environment. From Wordnik.com. [Eco-Chick] Reference
Tony Chan had odd jobs, including that of a bartender, before he began advising Hong Kong's rich and famous on feng shui, or geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
As for magic, necromancy, pyromancy, geomancy, coscinomancy, and all the other mancies -- there was then a whole literature about them. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Lectures and Essays] Reference
What intuitive geomancy allowed Chicquor to perceive the shape of the cross echoed in the vacancies and shadows that form in the valley?. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories] Reference
But I've no read o 'a case in which necromancy, nor geomancy, nor coskinomancy, nor ony other mancy, was applied to sic a purpose as this. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
+ geomancy, by points, lines or figures traced on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
"It presents an interesting theory of geomancy, but I have to say, it leaves out a great deal of the practicum. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
12 Probably suggested by the history of Antiochus and Stratonice, with an addition of Eastern mystery such as geomancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
When I got more interested in detective work, I went back to school, concentrating on Far Eastern talismanics and geomancy. ". From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
(geomancy), dwells round the graves, is associated with the Confucian worship, is the Neptune of the sea, and appears on dry land. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
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