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Superstition vs Apantomancy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between superstition and apantomancy

is that superstition is a belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way while apantomancy is divination by chance meetings with any objects that present themself, most commonly animals the superstition associated with a black cat crossing one's path is apantomancy.

superstition

English

(wikipedia superstition)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.

    • Related terms

    * superstitious

    apantomancy

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • divination by chance meetings with any objects that present themself, most commonly animals. The superstition associated with a black cat crossing one's path is apantomancy.

    • References

    ::"Apantomancy: Divination by means of any objects which happen to present themselves. To this class belong the omens drawn from chance meetings with a hare, an eagle, etc." -- L. Spence Encyc. Occult, 1920 ::"Even objects that lie about haphazardly were fit for mantic purposes. The prcatice was called apantomancy." -- H.E. Wedeck Treasury of Witchcraft, 1961