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Prophecy - Sortes virgilianae.
In the Middle Ages, as the figure of the Latin poet Virgil developed into a kind of magus or wizard, manuscripts of his work The Aeneid were used for divination, the sortes virgilianae. A line would be selected at random and interpreted, very much in the way Old Testament lines were interpreted for arcane meanings, in light of a current situation.
See also: Prophecy, Prophecy - History of prophecy, Prophecy - Prophecy in religion, Prophecy - Evidence of prophecy, Prophecy - Folk prophecy, Prophecy - Sortes virgilianae, Prophecy - The crawling baby, Prophecy - Scientific prediction | | | Prophecy, Prophecy - Evidence of prophecy, Prophecy - Folk prophecy, Prophecy - History of prophecy, Prophecy - Prophecy in religion, Prophecy - Scientific prediction, Prophecy - Sortes virgilianae, Prophecy - The crawling baby, Apocalypticism, Bible code, Bible prophecy, The Celestine Prophecy, I Ching, Oracle, Akashic Records, Nostradamus, Prediction, Prophet, Self-fulfilling prophecy, Timeline of unfulfilled Christian Prophecy, Vaticinium ex eventu, Summary of Christian eschatological differences | | |
| | | Prophecy: Encyclopedia II - Prophecy - Folk prophecy
Prophecy - Folk prophecy
Prophecy - Sortes virgilianae
In the Middle Ages, as the figure of the Latin poet Virgil developed into a kind of magus or wizard, manuscripts of his work The Aeneid were used for divination, the sortes virgilianae. A line would be selected at random and interpreted, very much in the way Old Testament lines were interpreted for arcane meanings, in light of a current situation.
Prophecy - The crawling baby
In some cultures it is customary to place a series of objects evocative of possible future occupations in front of a baby. Whichever object the baby crawls to or picks up is said to indicate the kind of profession the baby will grow up to have.
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