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Divination vs Belomancy - What's the difference?

divination | belomancy |

As nouns the difference between divination and belomancy

is that divination is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while belomancy is studying the flight of arrows, an act of divination used by the greeks and arabs it is strongly forbidden in the koran.

divination

English

(wikipedia divination)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
  • The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
  • (countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * star divination

    Related terms

    * divine * predivination

    See also

    * (Methods of divination) ----

    belomancy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bellomancy * bolomancy

    Noun

    (-)
  • studying the flight of arrows, an act of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs. It is strongly forbidden in the Koran.

    • See also

    * rhabdomancy

    References

    :: "For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with his arrows..." -- Ezekiel 21:21, Bible :: "Of this kinde of Rhabdomancy was that practised by Nabuchadonosor in the Chaldean miscellany, delivered by Ezekiel. A like way of Belomancy or Divination by Arrowes hath been in request with Scythians, Alanes, Germans, with the Africans and Turks of Algiers." -- Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne 1646