Tradition 06 of 33
Divination and oracles
Tarot, cartomancy, numerology, palmistry, scrying, geomancy, runes, and other divinatory systems.
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- 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
Eight sermons in defence of the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Daniel Waterland
1815
Eight sermons preach'd at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul
Daniel Waterland
1720
Emmanuel, or, God-man
John Tombes
1669
Episcopacy (as establishd by law in England) not prejudicial to regal power
Robert Sanderson, Robert Lincoln
1678
Episcopacy as established by law in England not prejudicial to regal power
Robert Sanderson, Blanch Pawlet, George West, Robert Barker, Assigns of John Bill
1661
Essay on the sonship of Jesus Christ
Aaron Kinne
1814
Essay on the sonship of Jesus Christ ; with Remarks on the Bible news, by Noah Worcester, A.M., in a letter to a friend
Aaron Kinne
1814
Essays in church history and theology in courses in the Harvard Divinity School
Raymond Calkins
1894
Ethics of the social question [Philosophy 5
Raymond Calkins
1895
Evidence of the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ
Stephen West
1816
Experiences of a dowser
Ludwig Siedersberger
1982
Explanatory notes upon a mendacious libel
J. B
1698
Extracts from an Humble inquiry into the Scripture account of Jesus Christ
Thomas Emlyn
1790
Extracts from the writings of primitive Friends, concerning the divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings
1823
Face reading secrets
Rose Rosetree
1994
Faith no fancy
Ralph Erskine, James Fisher
1745
Faith no fancy, or, A treatise of mental images
Ralph Erskine
1745
Familiar letters to the Reverend Philo Judson, pastor of a church in Ashford
Oliver Clark
1818
Four Discourses Delivered to the Clergy Of The Diocess of Sarvm, Concerning I. The Truth of the Christian Religion. II. The Divinity and Death of Christ. III. The Infallibility and Authority of the Church. IV. The Obligations to continue in the Communion of the Church
Gilbert Burnet
1694
Four discourses delivered to the clergy of the Diocess of Sarum ..
Gilbert Burnet
1694
Fuillevert's Science of palmistry
S. Fuillevert
1897
General observations on the common mode of defending the doctrine of the Trinity and the union of the two natures in Jesus Christ
G. Clark, George Unitarian Clark
1817
Geomancy and other forms of divination
Alessandro Palazzo, I Zavattero
2017
Gloria patri
Thomas Sadler
1859