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
The nine doors of Midgard
Edred Thorsson
1991
The professional's complete dowsing course
Russ Simmons
1978
The revised professional's complete dowsing course
Russ Simmons
1993
The riddle of the runes
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
1932
The runes
Kelvin I. Jones
1993
The square of sevens
Edward Prime-Stevenson, Robert Antrobus
1897
The witness of the Old Testament to Christ
Stanley Leathes
1868
Universe of the Human Body
Marko Pogacnik
2016
Walking on water
Edwin Taylor
1999
Divination et société dans la Chine médiévale
Marc Kalinowski, Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Library
2003French
Encyclopédie de la divination
Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, Hubert Larcher, René Alleau, Roger-Jean Ségalat, José Mendoza y Almeida, Gilbert Durand, Gwen Le Scouezec
1965French
Gauklerkunst und Götterzeichen
Rudolph Kremer
2023German
La adivinación en los papiros mágicos griegos
Alejandro García Molinos
2017Ancient Greek
La fisonomia dell'huomo, et la celeste
Giambattista della Porta, Polemon of Laodicea, Giovanni Ingegneri, Adamantio
1652Italian
Le "De diuinatione" de Cicéron et les théories antiques de la divination
François Guillaumont
2006French
Praecepta chiromantica
Nicolaus Pompejus
1682Latin
Sex quaestiones contra paganos expositae (EP. 102)
Aurelius Augustinus, Florian Wekenmann
2025German
WitchPower
Shisha Rainbow
2025German
3 : The Book of Thoth
Aleister Crowley
2017
Absolute key to occult science. The tarot of the bohemians, the most ancient book in the world for the use of initiales by Papus (pseud.)
Gerard Encausse
1919
Book of Runes
Howard Blum
1993
Das Christusbild der Geschichte und das Christusbild der Dogmatik
Oskar Holtzmann
1890German
De D.N. Jesu Christi divinitate
Giovanni Perrone
1870Latin
Die Weissagungen Jesu Christi
Paul Schwartzkopff
1895German