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 Anthropomancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthropomancy (from Greek anthropos, 'man', and manteia, 'divination') is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often times young virgin female children through sacrifice.
This practice was sometimes also called Splanchomancy (divination by examining the entrails of sacrificial victims).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthropomancy   (132 words)

  
 Anthropomancy - Acadine Archive
Anthropomancy is the divination by the entrails of men or women.
Herodotus said that Menelaus, detained in Egypt by contrary winds, sacrificed to his barbarous curiosity, two children of the country, and sought to discover his destiny by means of anthropomancy.
Julian the Apostate, in his magical operations, during his nocturnal sacrifices, caused, it is said, a large number of children to be killed, so that he might consult their entrails.
www.acadine.org /index.php/Anthropomancy   (187 words)

  
 Divination Dictionary
ANTHROPOMANCY- An ancient and extremely gruesome form of divination by means of interpreting the intestines of sacrificed children and women (I don't know about you but I'm already sick to my stomach), much in the same fashion as haruspicy.
Please be aware that methods, such as Anthropomancy are no longer being used, have been outlawed for thousands of years or both and are NOT supported by the Wiccan or any other Pagan community.
This horrible method of divination was believed to have been practiced regularly by the Emperor Julian the Apostate, and was at one time encouraged by the oracle at Delphi.
www.angelfire.com /wi3/divaz   (1956 words)

  
 Darken Rahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darken Rahl was a practitioner of an ancient form of magic called anthropomancy.
His conscience was clear when he performed his anthropomancy on a victim.
He divined the answers to questions by the inspection of living human entrails.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darken_Rahl   (2170 words)

  
 Uncle Jimbo's End of Time Blues
Anthropomancy (9SP): This type of FX includes a number of effects, almost all of which require the mutilation or consumption of human victims.
Reader may purchase the broad skill Anthropomancy at list price —1.
Reader may continue study of the document to learn the Anthropomancy-food of life spell.
homepages.tig.com.au /~jclunie/darkmatter/anthropomancy.htm   (709 words)

  
 Outcast Earth: Arcana
Anthropomancy: This brutal technique for divining future events required a living human, often a child, being to be torn open so priests could examine their entrails.
Like many others of his ilk, however, anthropomancy was just one of many inhumane acts perpetrated by this ruler.
Although ancient cultures frequently practiced augury, in which a bird or animal was similarly disemboweled, there are only a handful of individuals or cultures that employed anthropomancy.
www.outcastearth.com /arcana.htm   (6517 words)

  
 divination (fortune telling)
anthropomancy (divination by interpreting the organs of newly sacrificed humans)
skepdic.com /divinati.html   (598 words)

  
 A Glossary Of Divination
ANTHROPOMANCY is the long-outlawed means of divination by human sacrifice.
APANTOMANCY is divination through chance meetings with animals (e.g., a black cat), birds, and other creatures.
www.angelfire.com /tx/afaceinacrowd/glossdiv.html   (1303 words)

  
 BIOGRAPHY
While beginning as a pure Black Metal band, Anthropomancy soon became a complex mixture of all kinds of Black Metal varieties with various influences from different genres of Metal.
Anthropomancy started out as a nameless project by vocalist and lyric writer Willem Maessen.
Today Anthropomancy continuous to create the music both members like, and it’s a slow but steady progress.
www.gorgo.nl /anthropomancy/bio.html   (167 words)

  
 -mancy, -mancer (Greek: divination, prophecy) words: spatalamancy to zygomancy, part 9 of 9.
Divination in the form of anthropomancy practiced by ancient Etruscans from the study of the entrails of sacrificed victims.
Divination by observing or examining burned, chracked, or charred animal shoulder blades.
Divination by examining ashes, especially those of a sacrifice.
www.wordquests.info /cgi/ice2-for.cgi?file=/hsphere/local/home/scribejo/wordquests.info/htm/L-Gk-mancy-S-Z.htm&HIGHLIGHT=mancy   (624 words)

  
 Anthropomancy
Julian the Apostate incorporated anthropomancy in his magical operations.
He had large numbers of children killed so he could read their entrails.
www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/anthropomancy.html   (164 words)

  
 Anthropomancy - meaning and definition of the word.
Anthropomancy - meaning and definition of the word.
You can double click on any word to find it's meaning when you see the help cursor.
dictionary.blintz.com /dictionary/Anthropomancy   (43 words)

  
 Divination
Anthropomancy was a barbaric form of divination that involved using human entrails.
The Greeks would analyze the names of opponents and predict the outcome of a contest.
www.fortunecity.com /greenfield/tigris/567/id42.htm   (7333 words)

  
 Secret Societies - Parts 1 through 2
Anthropomancy: This is one of the practices supposed at present to have fallen into disuse.
It is a horrible, savage abomination and consists in disemboweling a human being for the purpose of divining the future by inspection of the entrails.
The casting of horoscopes is its most prevalent practice.
christianparty.net /wm/wm0081a.html   (1698 words)

  
 Definations of Psychic Abilities Psychic definitions Types of Psychic Abilities
Anthropomancy - examination of human remains (particularly vital organs) for prediction.
Amniomancy - is divination by using the membranous sac surrounding a newborn baby.
Anthroposcopy - is divination by observing facial features.
www.eiexcell.org /PsychicAbilitiesDefinitions.html   (2208 words)

  
 Anthropomancy
Anthropomancy is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Anthropomancy, Pagan, Paganism, Wicca, Wiccan, Witchcraft, Witch, Pagan Archives Paganism Dictionary, Wicca Dictionary, Wiccan Dictionary, Witchcraft Dictionary, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Mysticism Archives, Mystic, Mystic Archives, Mysticism Dictionary - A, Mysticism Glossary - A, Mysticism Terms - A
We recommend this article: Anthropomancy - 1, and also this: Anthropomancy - 2.
www.experiencefestival.com /anthropomancy   (420 words)

  
 Legendary Times vol.9 no.30
Anthropomancy Lord Rahvin von Darkmoor quietly stands up, his grisly work done.
He was one of the only remaining practitioners of Anthropomancy, the art of diving answers from living entrails.
At most all you could get was a yes or a no, maybe sometimes a place or name.
legendmud.org /Community/lt_indices/Vol9/LTv9n30.html   (5519 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Anthropomancy - A form of necromancy using human entrails.
Alomancy - Divination by means of the interpretation of patterns created by throwing salt onto a flat surface.
Capnomancy - A form of Pyromancy, in which sacred plants are burned, particularly Vervain.
www.geocities.com /myrddins_enclosure/Types.htm   (670 words)

  
 Divination Glossary
Similar to Anthropomancy (interpretation of human entrails) and Heiromancy (interpretation of sacrificed animals) Also known as Haruspicy, Extispicy, and Extispicium.
ANTINOPOMANCY: A ghost word, beginning as a mistake in Gaule for anthropomancy.
The word is coined from anthraco-, the modern scientific word element signifying "coal", which comes from the ancient Greek anthrak-, the stem of anthrax coal.
dewarlorx.com /divination.htm   (15732 words)

  
 Extispicy: Burning From the Inside
(Human entrail reading happens to be called anthropomancy.
He ventured out to the Senate's steps, where he was subsequently skewered himself -- almost perhaps to the point where his entrails could have borrowed for a little divination had anyone dared presume upon him right then.
www.batcafe.com /batblog/archives/000144.html   (686 words)

  
 Gargantua and Pantagruel
By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus.
By cheromancy, as the bean is found in the cake at the Epiphany vigil.
It is somewhat irksome, but thou wilt endure it well enough, seeing thou art destinated to be a cuckold.
manybooks.net /pages/rabelaisetext98ggpnt11/460.html   (231 words)

  
 anthropomancy - OneLook Dictionary Search
Anthropomancy : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "anthropomancy" is defined.
anthropomancy : The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=anthropomancy   (126 words)

  
 NEWS
Anthropomancy has started to work on the album layout, and the final mixing of the song ‘Her bidding red’, which has proven to be more difficult than we thought.
Anthropomancy has nearly finished a couple of new songs which they will record this summer.
And Anthropomancy will record their first demo material on Tuesday (11-01).
www.gorgo.nl /anthropomancy/news.html   (468 words)

  
 Anthropomancy Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ FolkArtMuseum.com
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www.folkartmuseum.com /search/encyclopedia/Anthropomancy   (101 words)

  
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www.rhymespot.com /anthropomancy   (28 words)

  
 Review of "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
Clearly an expert in various forms of divination, from anthropomancy to tea-leaf reading, Mulder is overjoyed to find a real psychic on whom to test his theories.
Scully, who does not believe in psychic ability, is free to treat Bruckman as a real human being, and the relationship between them moves from strained tolerance to a warm understanding.
His eager-beaver questioning ("Pinch me!"), in which he treats Bruckman like a lab rat to be poked and prodded for answers, reveals the insatiable curiosity behind Mulder's "obsession" with the supernatural.
www.munchkyn.com /xf-rvws/bruckman.html   (1844 words)

  
 Forgotten Practices
The divinatory evaluation of entrails from sacrificial animals is known as haruspication, yet if the entrails used are of human origin (usually children and especially virgin girls were selected) it is called anthropomancy.
All suspects have to eat a piece from a barley leaf (or from a loaf of barley bread) and the guilty person is then identified by his or her becoming sick whereas the others show no physical reaction.
Having no Amnesty International watching over him, this method was mainly practiced by the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate (331-363 CE), yet has been known in Egypt as well.
www.concentric.net /~adowens/book/forgottenthings.htm   (1178 words)

  
 AEROMANCY: The divination of the future from the Air and sky
ANTHROPOMANCY: An Ancient and long-outlawed form of human sacrifice.
ALPHITOMANCY: A form, which utilizes special cakes which are digestible by persons with a clear conscience, but are distasteful to all others.
www.geocities.com /aresprotege/articles/mancy.html   (1921 words)

  
 Anthracomancy
Anthracomancy: by the patterns of burning coals; Anthropomancy: by the entrails
www.bigletterlist.net /w/a/Anthracomancy.htm   (135 words)

  
 divination by entrails online resources
Information about Anthropomancy, divination by raising the dead...
www.tarotuk.co.uk /uk-tarot/pages/divination-by-entrails.html   (439 words)

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