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Tasseomancy vs Botanomancy - What's the difference?

tasseomancy | botanomancy |

As nouns the difference between tasseomancy and botanomancy

is that tasseomancy is divination with tea leaves while botanomancy is divination by plants a form of pyromancy in which tree branches and leaves are burnt branches of brier and vervain were used, the question was etched into the branch.

tasseomancy

English

Noun

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  • divination with tea leaves

    • Synonyms

    * tasseography

    Related terms

    * tasseographer

    botanomancy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * batanomancy * botinomancy * botomancy * botonomancy

    Noun

    (-)
  • Divination by plants. A form of pyromancy in which tree branches and leaves are burnt. Branches of brier and vervain were used, the question was etched into the branch.
  • also referred to as tea-leaf reading, or tasseomancy.

    • Quotations

    :: "Diuination generally was done by diuers means...or by Hearbes, Botinomancy, the witches magicke." -- Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God, 1610 :: "By Botomancy, for the nonce I have a few Leaves in reserve." -- Urquhart translating Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv., 1660 :: "A method of divination by means of burning the branches of vervein and briar, upon which were carved the questions of the practitioner." -- L. Spence Encyc. Occult, 1920

    Related terms

    anthomancy, daphnomancy, dendromancy, floromancy, foliomancy, and sycomancy. pyromancy