Beginner's Guide To Witchcraft

Some types of divination

I Ching/Book of Changes/Chien Tung: An Ancient Chinese type of divination to reveal patterns of change through deep introspection and intuitive thought.

Lithomancy: Divination using crystals or semi-precious stones, either interpreting the light from them or by casting them and interpreting their placement as they fall.

Metagnomy: Divination achieved through a trancelike state

Necromancy: Divination through communication with the dead.

Oculomancy: Divination by interpreting the eye

Oneiromancy: Divination through the interpretation of dreams

Oracle: Making contact with spirits or gods.

Ouija/Ouije: Divination with the use of a Ouija Board, a board printed with the alphabet and numbers and using a planchette to spell out messages.

Premonition: A warning of a future event, typically an accident or disaster.

Prophecy: A vision or revelation of the future, typically provided by a deity.

Pyromancy: Divination by fire

Capnomancy: Divination by interpreting rising smoke

Libranomancy/Livanomancy: Divination through interpreting the smoke made by burning incense.

Causimomancy: Divination by observing objects placed in a fire

Lampadomancy: Divination by interpreting the flame of a candle, torch, or lamp

Lychnomancy: Divination through interpreting the flames of three candles

Pyroscopy: Divination by burning paper

Spodomancy: Divination by interpreting ashes, cinders, or soot

Xylomancy: Divination by burning wood

Botanomancy: Divination by interpreting burning or burned leaves or branches

Daphnomancy: Divination by interpreting a burning laurel branch

Tephramancy: Divination through interpretation of the ashes of burnt tree bark.

Radiesthesia: Divination through using a pendulum or rod.

Pallomancy: Divination using a pendulum

Cleidomancy/Clidomancy: divining through using a key attached to a cord or string.

Coscinomancy/Cosquinomancy: Divination using a sieve suspended from shears or tongs.

Dactyliomancy/Dactlomancy: Divination using a suspended ring

Divining/Dowsing/Water Witching: using a rod to determine the location of water

Rhabdomancy: Divination using a stick or rod.

Sciomancy: Divination by using a spirit guide, different from necromancy in that the guide is not summoned

Scrying: The term for divination by seeking a vision while gazing into a transparent, translucent, or otherwize reflective object.

Crystal ball gazing
Crystal gazing
Fires Scrying
Ink Scrying
Mirror Scrying
Smoke Scrying
Water Scrying
Wine Scrying

Selenomancy: Divination of the appearance and phase of the moon.

Spatilomancy: Divination by interpreting animal excrement

Stareomancy: Divination by interpreting the classical elements of wind, water, earth, or fire.

Sycomancy: Divination through writing a question on a leaf and ascertaining the answer through how quickly the leaf dries.

Tasseography/Tasseomancy: Divination through reading tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments

Trochomancy: Divination by wheel ruts or tracks.

Xenomancy: Divination by interpreting meetings with strangers.

Zoomancy: Divination though interpretation of the appearance and behavior of animals

Ailuromancy: Divination through observing the behavior of cats.

Entomancy: Divination by interpreting the behavior of insects

Arachnomancy: Divination by observing the behavior of spiders

Myrmomancy: Divination through the interpretation of the behavior of ants

Skatharomancy: Divination by interpreting the tracks of a beetle.

Hippomancy: Divination by interpreting the behavior of horses.

Myomancy: Divination through interpretation of the behavior of mice and rats.

Ophiomancy: Divination by observing the behavior of serpents

Ornithomancy: Divination through interpretation of the behavior, flight, and song of birds.

Theriomancy: Divination through interpreting the movements of groups of animals.

Zygomancy: Divination by using weights