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
Two essays
Thomas Scott
1817
Two letters to Canon Stowell, M.A., in reply to one addressed by him to J.H. Budgett, Esqr., entitled, Is Socinianism Christianity?
William Gaskell
1854
Two sermons delivered in Shelburne (Mass.) May 15, 1808
Theophilus Packard
1808
Unitarianism explained and defended in a discourse
Joseph Priestley
1796
Unitarianism philosophically and theologically examined in a series of periodical numbers
Anthony Kohlmann
1821
Unitarianism the religion of Jesus
John Samuel Thompson
1828
Unitarianism untenable
W. J. of Pittsburgh Bakewell
1843
University reform and the divinity school: four pamphlets
Charles Henry Hamilton Wright
1879
Up to date superstitions in common use in every-day life
Emma D. Mills
1895
Up-to-date superstitions
Emma D. Mills
1897
Views of religion
Henry Colman
1825
Vindiciae Dominicae
Adam Gib
1778
Vindiciae evangelicae or The mystery of the Gospell vindicated, and Socinianisme examined
John Owen
1655
Vindiciæ Evangelicæ
John Owen
1655
Visible muscular conditions as expressive of states of the brain and nerve centres
Francis Warner
1882
Votum pro Cæsare
Edmund Barker
1660
Was Jesus God?
Jabez Thomas Sunderland
1895
Water diviners and their methods
Henri Mager
1931
Water dowsing
United States Geological Survey
1977
Water witching
Evon Zartman Vogt
1959
Water-finding
William Sir Barrett
1905
Wells' new descriptive chart for giving a delineation of character
Samuel Roberts Wells
1895
What and how about "water witching"?
Clyde Clinton Hammerly
1935
What think ye of Christ?
John Pierpont
1823