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
Private vices the occasion of publick calamities
Edward Lewis
1747
Proof from scripture, that God, even the Father, is the only true God, and the only proper object of religious worship
Lant Carpenter
1812
Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Egypt
Christopher B. Hays, John Huddlestun, Thomas Schneider
2025
PuV-mantia. The mag-astro-mancer, or the magicall-astrologicall-diviner posed, and puzzled
John Gaule
1652
Qvo Warranto; Or, A Moderate Enquiry Into The VVarrantablenesse Of The Preaching Of Gifted and Unordained Persons. Where also some other Questions are discussed : Viz. Concerning {Ministerial Relation, Election, Ordination. Being A Vindication Of the Late Jus Divinum Ministerii Evangelici, So far as concerns those Points; From the Exceptions of Mr. John Martin, Mr. Sam. Petto, Mr. Frederick Woodal
Matthew Poole
1658
Radial detection
Albert Alfred Cook
1941
Raphael's witch!!! or, The oracle of the future
Robert C. Smith, Robert Cruikshank, J. Blewitt
1856
Reading the liver
William D. Furley, Victor Gysembergh
2015
Reasons why this kingdom, as all others, and the Parliaments and people of this kingdom, as all others, whether Christian or heathen, and especially such as hould predestination ought to adhere to their kings, whether good or bad
to the use of all true Protestants I. I. faithful subject to his King and welwisher to his Parliament
1642
Reflections on Gall and Spurzheim's system of physiognomy and phrenology addressed to the Court of Assistants of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, in June, 1821
John Abernethy
1821
Reflections on two discourses concerning the divinity of our Saviour
Stephen Nye
1693
Reflections on two discourses concerning the divinity of our Saviour, written by Monsieur Lamoth in French, and done into English
Stephen Nye
1693
Religion and allegiance
Roger Maynwaring
1709
Remarks on American Unitarianism
George Savage, Augustus Toplady
1815
Remarks on a sermon, published by the Rev. Isaac Robinson, A.M.
T. R. Sullivan
1826
Remarks on the constitution of the Society for the promotion of theological education in Harvard university
Samuel Atkins Eliot
1825
Remarks on the eternal sonship of Christ
Richard Watson
1818
Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book intituled The case of resistance of the supreme powers stated and resolved, according to the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures
Samuel Johnson
1689
Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book intituled The case of resistance of the supreme powers stated and resolved, according to the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures
Samuel Johnson
1689
Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book, intituled, The case of allegiance due to soveraign princes, stated and resolved &c
Samuel Johnson
1690
Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book, intituled, The case of allegiance due to soveraign princes, stated and resolved &c
Samuel Johnson
1690
Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book, intituled, The case of the allegiance due to soveraign princes, stated and resolved, &c
Samuel Johnson
1690
Remarks upon some passages in a dedication to the Jews, by W. Warburton, D.D. Dean of Bristol
Edward Weston
1759
Remonstrance of a Unitarian
James Captain Gifford
1820