Pyromancy vs Lampadomancy - What's the difference?
pyromancy | lampadomancy |
Divination by fire; the use of fire to supernaturally gain information.
The magical power of conjuring or controlling fire.
divination by the interpretation of the flame of a lamp. A type of pyromancy.
* 1652, The Magastromancer xix , Gaule
* 1931, Picture Museum of Sorcery viii , Lock tr. de Givry
As nouns the difference between pyromancy and lampadomancy
is that pyromancy is divination by fire; the use of fire to supernaturally gain information while lampadomancy is divination by the interpretation of the flame of a lamp. A type of pyromancy.pyromancy
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(-)Synonyms
* (conjuring or controlling fire) pyrokinesisHyponyms
* alomancy, divination by salt, one type of which involves casting salt into a fire * botanomancy, divination by burning plants * capnomancy, divination by smoke; light, thin smoke that rose straight up was a good omen; otherwise, a bad one. * causinomancy, divination by burning (non-specific as to the object burned) * daphnomancy (also, empyromancy), divination by burning laurel leaves * osteomancy, divination using bones, one type of which involves heating to produce cracks * plastromancy, divination using turtle plastrons; in China, this was done by heating pits carved into them. * scapulimancy, divination by scapulae; in Asia and North America, this was done pyromantically. * sideromancy, divination by burning straw.lampadomancy
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(-) (wikipedia lampadomancy)- Lampadomancy, by candles and lamps...
- A divination based on the observation of the movements of the flame of a lamp was called lampadomancy.