Voorbeelden van divination

• Another form of divination which they employ for the same purpose is to put the question to the ghost, while two men hold a bow which belonged to him and to which some personal articles of his are attached. 

• He is supposed to have been well versed in the arts of divination and astrology, and was the origin of the Persian magi. 

• If the woman had no such dream, it fell to the father or the relatives to determine the name by divination or by consulting a wizard. 

• It needed little divination on her part to guess what the words might have been. 

• Visitors are there in plenty, but their object is to "get luck," and the business of religion has become transformed into divination and spiritual gambling. 

• The prerequisite for good judgement in matters of the external world, and the divination of falsehood, is a knowledge and examination of the soul.

• Unlike prognostics, which simply provide information to correlate natural phenomena and human activities, divinations require action, usually the manipulation of numbers, to answer a question.

• These are two groups of three works, the first on alchemy,46 the second on divination.

• At the end of the quire, on originally blank leaves, two scribes have added brief notes on indulgences and feasts, and an alphabetic divination (40).

• The shape of copper money, chess boards, divination boards, and the decoration of bronze mirrors all reflected this idea.

• This is no divination but is a natural thing in creation.

• But intuition is a very tricky faculty in the fields of science and mathematics, for it essentially means divination.

• The series of practices occurring during the nine days of the festival are strictly regulated by tradition and divination.

• He connects the grammar of divination with its rhetorical structures.

• Throughout both sides of the theory two methods are in operation, divination and comparison.

• English condemnations of augur y and divination were more often directed not against its theoretical underpinnings but against its cultural setting.

• I am therefore inclined to believe that the act of scattering seeds performed by the sowing priests could be a divination ritual.

• But precisely this nonrelevance does not make one revise one's beliefs in the general framework of this institution of divination.

• As such it is, as expected, studded with dates as well as many anecdotal illustrations of the role of mediums, of divinations, # and of traditional religion.

• Schleiermacher is concerned with knowing as much as possible about the author and speaks of ' divination ' as a method of knowing the author's mind.