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Cartomancy vs Geomancy - What's the difference?

cartomancy | geomancy |

As nouns the difference between cartomancy and geomancy

is that cartomancy is fortune telling using cards, as in tarot while geomancy is a method of divination which interprets markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.

cartomancy

English

Noun

(-)
  • Fortune telling using cards, as in tarot.

    • References

    * English words suffixed with -mancy

    geomancy

    English

    (wikipedia geomancy)

    Alternative forms

    * geomancie (Early Modern English )

    Noun

    (-)
  • A method of divination which interprets markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.

    • Derived terms

    * geomantic

    Quotations

    * 1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. *: Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy , Chiromancy, Metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come... * 1868 Chambers's Encyc. III *: Geomancy (this was anciently practised by casting pebbles on the ground, from which conjectures were formed; but the Arabian geomancy was more recondite, being founded on the effects of motion under the crust of the earth, the chinks thus produced, and the noises or thunderings heard)... * 1970 Man, Myth & Magic v. *: Geomancy - by dots on paper, marks on the earth, or particles of earth. English words prefixed with geo- English words suffixed with -mancy ----