astragyromancy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly a joining of astragalomancy and gyromancy (spinning of the dice).
Noun[edit]
astragyromancy (uncountable)
- Divination by dice.
- 1970, Richard Cavendish, Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural:
- Known as astragalomancy or astragyromancy, this method is supposed, righdy or wrongly, to make clear to man the designs of providence, the will of the gods, the decrees of fate.
- [1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 312:
- ASTRAGALOMANCY or ASTRAGYROMANCY: Divination with dice, ranging from crude bones with primitive markings to cubes bearing spots, letters, or cabalistic symbols, all interpreted by the bone caster.]
- 1992, Max Maven, Max Maven's book of fortunetelling, page 45:
- This is an extremely simple form of sortilege related to astragalomancy or astragyromancy (from the Greek astragalos, meaning "vertebra, knucklebone"), which began about 5,000 years ago.
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Further reading[edit]
astragalomancy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
