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
Witchcraft, or, the art of fortune-telling unveiled
William Frederick Pinchbeck
1805
Witching for water, oil, pipes, and precious minerals
Walker Demarquis Wyman
1977
Writing the future
Tony Hunt
2013
Your luck's in your hand
A. R. Craig
1800
Zillionz
Titania Hardie
2000
[Antiteichisma], or, A counter-scarfe prepared anno 1642 for the eviction of those zealots that in their workes defie all externall bowing at the name of Jesus, or, The exaltation of his person and name by God and us in ten tracts against Jewes, Turkes, pagans, heretickes, schismatickes, &c. that oppose both or either
Thomas Barton
1643
[Briefe introductions ... vnto the art of chiromancy]
Johannes ab Indagine
1558
[Reports of the Visiting Committee and the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, 1849-1862]
Harvard University. Board of Overseers, Harvard University. Visiting Committees, Harvard Divinity School
1849
[The most excellent, profitable, and pleasant booke of the famous doctour and expert astrologien Arcandam or Aleandrin
Richard Roussat
1562
[The] most excellent, profitable and pleasant booke of the famous doctor and expert astrologian Arcandam, or Alcandrin, to finde the fatall destiny, constellation, complexion, and naturall inclination of euery man and child by his birth
Richard Roussat
1626
Das deutsche Tarotbuch. Wahrsagung / Astrologie / Weisheit. Drei Stufen der Einweihung
Alan Frank Glahn
1924
'byung rtsis tshig 'grel gtsug lag kun gsal sgron me
Ze'u-dbaṅ-phrin-las
2008
'tSecreet van de Engelsche mis in het veroordeelen van Charles, dies naems de eerste koninck van Groot Britannien ende Yerlandt, ontdeckt
Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn
1649Dutch
(種筠書屋較訂)撼龍經
楊筠松, 高其倬, 葉泰
1741Chinese
1枚から占える未来がわかる完全版タロット占い
紫月, 香帆
2023Japanese
3 Tage im Spätherbst
Stephan Berndt
2017German
4 vías de predisposición a la adivinación
Claude Baudoin
2021Spanish
A keresztény hittudomány
Károly Derzsi
1899Hungarian
A m. Ernest Renan
Barnabé Chauvelot
1863French
ABC de l'encromancie
Umâ Mukanda
1995French
Ad tit. C. De maleficis et math. & ceter. similibus
Alberico Gentili
1604Latin
Adamantii Sophistae Physiognomonicon, id est De naturae indiciis cognoscendis libri duo
Adamant, Janus Cornarius, Plutarch, Antonius Polemo
1544Ancient Greek
Adivinación por las runas
Fernanda Nosenzo Spagnolo
1998Spanish
Adivinación por los posos del café
Caterina Galloni
1999Spanish