Tradition 06 of 33
Divination and oracles
Tarot, cartomancy, numerology, palmistry, scrying, geomancy, runes, and other divinatory systems.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 4,542
- Earliest
- 100 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 37%
- 1,690 with public full text
- With covers
- 52%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,082
- Metadata match175
- Query match1,278
- Source classification (retained through merging)7
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Divination768
- Divinity645
- Early works to 1800584
- Physiognomy574
- fortune-telling303
- Divine right of kings300
- History293
- Palmistry245
- Astrology183
- Tarot174
- India155
- Geomancy154
- Hindu astrology152
- Runes147
- Trinity127
- Numerology124
- Hindu astronomy120
- Controversial literature116
- Dowsing116
- Sermons116
- Magic110
- occultism94
- Art93
- Unitarianism92
Top languages
- English2,351 · 52%
- French523 · 12%
- Latin311 · 7%
- German290 · 6%
- Sanskrit159 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Johann Caspar Lavater47 in this tradition51 books
- Giambattista della Porta44 in this tradition89 books
- Marcus Tullius Cicero23 in this tradition30 books
- Catholic Church20 in this tradition28 books
- Johannes ab Indagine18 in this tradition19 books
- Aristotle17 in this tradition55 books
- Nigel Pennick13 in this tradition17 books
- Kaspar Peucer13 books
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh11 in this tradition71 books
- Cicero10 in this tradition13 books
- Michael Scot10 in this tradition12 books
- Alliette10 in this tradition11 books
4,542 books
Tajemství věštění
John Astrop
2003Czech
Tajemství čínské astrologie
Kwan Lau
1997Czech
Tarot Before It Told Fortunes
Amelia Febriany
2026
Tarot-card spread reader
Doris Chase Doane
1967
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Glenn Alexander Magee, Charles W. Stein, Joscelyn Godwin, Jessica Elbert Decker, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Roelof van den Broek, Daphna Arbel, April D. DeConick, William C. Chittick, Brian Ogren, Bruce Milem, Anne L. Clark, Antoine Faivre, Peter J. Forshaw, Bruce T. Moran, Hereward Tilton, Jan A.M. Snoek, Jane Williams‐Hogan, Adam Crabtree, Cathy Gutierrez
2016
The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology
Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
2015
The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot
Danny L. Jorgensen
2019
The Seven Ages
Louise Glück
2001
The fake divination offense
Sara Raasch
2026
The hand and the horoscope
Fred Gettings
1973
The nature of the Gods ; and On divination
Marcus Tullius Cıcero, Charles Duke Yonge
1997
The new and true Egyptian fortune-teller
Ptolomy King of the Gypsies
1774
The new book of knowledge
Erra Pater
1767
The seventh sense
Kenneth Lewis Roberts
1953
The tarot spellcaster
Terry Donaldson
2001
The teen witches' guide to divination
Claire Philip
2023
Umění předvídat budoucnost
Susan Bosanko
1993Czech
Umění předvídat budoucnost
Raymond Buckland
1998Czech
What's your card?
Arne Lein
1978
Znáš svou budoucnost?
Judy Hall
2001Czech
Continuidad, cambios y rupturas en la religión maya
Mercedes de la Garza, María del Carmen Valverde Valdés
2013Spanish
Les runes
Chris Semet
2024French
Prophecy and Hellenism
Aberdeen Prophecy Network Meeting, Hannes Bezzel, Stefan Pfeiffer
2021
Mediators of the Divine: Horizons of Prophecy, Divination, Dreams, and Theurgy in Mediterranean Antiquity
Robert M. Berchman
1998