ear-Book_, p. 1517.

_Stereomancy_, or divining by the elements.
_Aeromancy_, or divining by the air.
_Pyromancy_, by fire,
_Hydromancy_, by water.
_Geomancy_, by earth.
_Theomancy_, pretending to divine by the revelation of the Spirit,
and by the Scriptures, or word of God.
_Demonomancy_, by the aid of devils and evil spirits.
_Idolomancy_, by idols, images, and figures.
_Psychomancy_, by the soul, affections, or dispositions of men.
_Anthropomancy_, by the entrails of human beings.
_Theriomancy_, by beasts.
_Ornithomancy_, by birds.
_Ichthyomancy_, by fishes.
_Botanomancy_, by herbs.
_Lithomancy_, by stones.
_Kleromancy_, by lots.
_Oneiromancy_, by dreams.
_Onomancy_, by names.
_Arithmancy_, by numbers.
_Logarithmancy_, by logarithms.
_Sternomancy_, by the marks from the breast to the belly.
_Gastromancy_, by the sound of, or marks upon the belly.
_Omphalomancy_, by the navel.
_Chiromancy_, by the hands.
_Podomancy_, by the feet.
_Onchyomancy_, by the nails.
_Cephaleonomancy_, by asses' heads.
_Tephromancy_, by ashes.
_Kapnomancy_, by smoke.
_Knissomancy_, by the burning of incense.
_Ceromancy_, by the melting of wax.
_Lecanomancy_, by basins of water.
_Katoptromancy_, by looking-glasses.
_Chartomancy_, by writing in papers, and by Valentines.
_Macharomancy_, by knives and swords.
_Crystallomancy_, by crystals.
_Dactylomancy_, by rings.
_Koskinomancy_, by sieves.
_Axinomancy_, by saws.
_Chalmmancy_, by vessels of brass, or other metal.
_Spatilomancy_, by skins, bones, &c.
_Astromancy_, by stars.
_Sciomancy_, by shadows.
_Astragalomancy_, by dice.
_Oinomancy_, by the lees of wine.
_Sycomancy_, by figs.
_Tyromancy_, by cheese.
_Alphitomancy_, by meal, flour, or bran.
_Krithomancy_, by corn or grain.
_Alectromancy_, by cocks.
_Gyromancy_, by circles.
_Lampadomancy_, by candles and lamps.

ONEIRO-CRITICISM, or the art of interpreting dreams, is a relic of the
most remote ages, which has subsisted through all the changes that moral
or physical revolutions have operated in the world. The records of five
thousand years bear abundant testimony to the universal diffusion of the
belief, that the skilful could read the future in dreams. The rules of the
art, if any existed in ancient times,