Bibliomancy is a form of divination that seeks to know the future by randomly selecting a passage from a book, frequently a sacred text. The most common procedure involves placing the book on its spine, and with eyes closed, allowing the book to fall open to a random page. Then, with the eyes still closed, place a finger on the open page and read the passage indicated. Among Christians, the Bible is most commonly used, and in Islamic cultures the Qur'an. In the middle ages the use of Virgil's Aeneid was common in ...

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Bibliomancy: The act of divination through the use of written text. Originally associated with use of a Bible, the only literature available in many cases, may be applied to any form of text. Often, there is a strong numerology influence present in the divination procedure.

(See also: Bibliomancy, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

Bibliomancy:

Divination through the random selection of words or phrases taken out of books, especially the Bible.

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World Fantasy Award for Best Collection - 2004. WFC 2004 will be held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges are John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt. Winner: Bibliomancy, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing) Ghosts of Yesterday, Jack Cady (Night Shade Books) The Two Sams, Glen Hirshberg (Carroll & Graf) GRRM: A RRetrospective, George R. R. Martin (Subterranean Press) More Tomorrows & Other Stories, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthli ...

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bibliomancy

Divination by reading the first words when a page of a book falls open at random containing the reply to a question

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Divination is the practice of ascertaining information from supernatural sources. If a distinction is to be made with fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes. Divination is often dismissed by skeptics as being mere superstition: in the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, Alexander the false prophet, trained by "one of those who advertise enchantments, ...

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