Catoptromancy is a broad term of divination. If you want to be specific, use enoptromancy for the mirror divination, like that employed by the wicked queen in the story of Snow White, and crystallomancy for the ball of rock crystal that the Wicked Witch of the West uses in The Wizard of Oz. Employing crystallomancy is also referred to as " scrying.
The likely root of the first part of catoptromancy is Greek katoptron , meaning "mirror. Melted wax takes on interesting forms, and when you pour the melted wax into water the forms solidify and you can tell the future. According to ceromancy, that is. This word is also spelled cheiromancy. And it's a synonym of the more common word palmistry. Chiromancy has fallen in and out of favor over the millennia of its history.
In Medieval times, those hunting witches using chiromancy looked for pigmentation spots on the hands, which signaled a pact with the Devil. What does it mean to "cast lots"? Cast here means "throw" or "toss. In cleromancy, the lots are thrown and where and how they land provide clues about the future. If you use dice, you can refer to your particular kind of cleromancy as cubomancy. In one form of dactyliomancy, a ring is suspended by a fine thread over a round table marked with the letters of the alphabet.
In its dangling state, the ring settles briefly over particular letters, spelling out a message. Dactyl- means "finger," "toe," or "digit. Take a piece of paper and a pencil and make a whole bunch of dots on it. If you believe in geomancy and if you've done the dot-and-pencil work right you may find that answers to your questions and predictions about the future lie somewhere in the configuration of those dots.
To try an older version of geomancy, throw some dirt down and find information about the future in where the particles land. The term also refers to divination by geographical features. Definition : divination in which one walking in or around a circle falls from dizziness and prognosticates from the place of the fall. The gyro- in this word is the same gyro- in gyroscope.
It means "ring, spiral, circle. Definition : divination by water or other liquid as by visions seen therein or the ebb and flow of tides.
Hydromancy can be similar to catoptromancy —when it is a reflection that interests the reader—or it can have to do with the movement of water, either the water's own movement, or the way the water moves objects floating on it. The water inspected in lecanomancy may have stones tossed into it, or oil mixed into it. Lith- means "stone. Qualities of the stones are important in lithomancy, such as how reflective of light they are.
Definition : conjuration see conjure 2a of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events. Phrased less delicately than our definition, necromancy is divination by the dead. The word is also used to broadly refer to magic or sorcery. Necro- means "one that is dead" or "those that are dead. As part of the analysis, they threw out any experiments in which they saw bias or flaws.
They still found a "presentiment" effect, in which measures of physiological excitement changed seconds before an event. The finding suggests that people's bodies subconsciously sense the future when something important is about to happen, even if the people don't know it. For instance, if you were a day-trader betting lots of money on one stock, "10 seconds beforehand you might predict your stock tanking," Mossbridge told LiveScience.
The paper doesn't claim that people are psychic or have supernatural or paranormal powers. Instead, the authors believe presentiment is a real, physical effect that obeys natural laws — just ones that nobody understands, Mossbridge said. The Aberfan material had convinced him that it was no longer necessary to prove the existence of precognition. One predicted a catastrophe in Kensington. If the yearlong trial showed promise, Barker and Fairley planned to present the results to Parliament and to the British Medical Research Council.
The bureau also faced a version of the quandary that haunted Jonah, in the Old Testament. God asked Jonah to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but Jonah reasoned that, if the people of Nineveh heard his warning and repented, God would forgive them, and his prophesy would be false.
So Jonah ran away and ended up inside a whale. If a calamity is averted, how can it generate a vision to precede it? Over all, though, it was worth a shot. The bureau got its first major hit in the spring of Thirty days later, a turboprop Britannia passenger aircraft, carrying a hundred and thirty people, attempted to land in Nicosia, Cyprus, during bad weather. The plane, which was on its way from Bangkok to Basel, made a low circuit of the airport, its lights visible through the clouds, before crashing into a hill, breaking into pieces, and catching fire.
Two more people later died. Hencher was a gaunt forty-four-year-old telephone operator for the Post Office, who lived with his parents in Dagenham, in Essex. The other members of the family were drinkers; Hencher preferred to read. Barker had arranged to speak to him the following day. It was a panicked-sounding Hencher, who told Barker to check his gas supply. He had been worried about him all day.
Barker lived with Jane and their three young children in a large rented house named Barnfield, on the edge of the village of Yockleton. There was no gas supply. Barker replied that it was dark green. I found the memo, on Shelton Hospital letterhead, last December, along with some letters from Barker, in a brown envelope in the S.
Barker gave a detailed history of Hencher and his premonitions of Aberfan and the recent plane crash. It would be wrong for me to say that I was not frightened by a prediction of this nature.
I intend keeping a diary from now on and to record my reactions to this on a daily basis. I suppose anybody who plays about with precognition in this way to some extent sticks his neck out and must accept what he gets. The important thing though is for this information to be recorded so that if anything does happen it should cause some interest and may stimulate others to continue in this important work.
Of course, it is possible that this prediction as with the others may not be fulfilled in a literal way. It would be curious and remarkable indeed if Mr. The psychiatrist was both laconic and somehow heedless in his dealings with the paranormal. In another letter, Barker said that he was considering buying a former pub close to Shrewsbury, named the Squirrel, in part because it was haunted. A ghost named Joe was said to walk around upstairs.
Fairley later recalled that he opposed engaging with people who sent hunches to the Premonitions Bureau. He believed that precognition was largely unconscious. But Barker had no such compunction. Middleton foresaw a shipwreck in France, floods in Alaska, and tornadoes in the U. When there was a possible match, Barker congratulated his percipients.
On May 1st, ten days after his late-night call, Hencher telephoned Barker again. Another air disaster would take place within three weeks. The plane had distinctive tail fins, and there would be children involved.
Before he went to bed, Barker wrote a breathless letter to Fairley, seemingly dazed by the importance of the information he had been given.
Hencher is right again? But how can we stop it? If we could then Mr. Hencher would not be warned of this possible terrible tragedy in the way he was. If only. The influence of negative expectation—of fear—on our health is known as the nocebo effect. The nocebo effect is most often observed in connection with the side effects of drugs, cases in which self-fulfilling prophecies are common.
During a trial of beta-blockers, one group of male patients was told that a drug could cause erectile dysfunction, while another group was not. After three months, thirty-two per cent of those in the first group complained of erectile problems, compared with three per cent in the second. In , the maker of Eltroxin, a thyroid-replacement drug distributed in New Zealand, moved its manufacture from Canada to Germany.
The active ingredients in the drug remained the same, but the new pills were larger and a different color. After the media reported that the new drug was cheaper to make, reports of side effects rose by a factor of two thousand.
Whether a nocebo can kill is an open question. In the seventies, oncologists in Australia and the U. Between and , more than fifty Hmong refugees, primarily from Laos, died in the U. Postmortems revealed that some of the victims suffered from abnormal heart rhythms, which could have been exacerbated by the stress of immigration and the fear of an evil spirit crushing their chest in the night.
During a placebo trial described in , a twenty-six-year-old man swallowed twenty-nine inert capsules, thinking they were antidepressants, in an apparent suicide attempt. His blood pressure collapsed and he was taken to the hospital, where the symptoms abated when he was told what he had taken.
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