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
After God is dibia : Igbo cosmology, divination & sacred science in Nigeria
John Anenechukwu Umeh
1997
Al-Fārābī's theory of prophecy and divination
Richard Rudolf Walzer
1999
An essay shewing that none but God is the object of worship
1795
Ancient magic and divination 1
Tzvi Abusch, Karel van der Toorn
1999
Bókin um rúnir
Ralph H. Blum, Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir
1988
Chinese body divination
William Armand Lessa
1968
Divination in the ancient world : religious options and the individual
Veit Rosenberger
2013
Divine institutes of true religion and civil government
1783
Dreamers true friend
1874
Dreams and moles interpreted
1810
Early Mesopotamian Divination Literature
Abraham Winitzer
2017
Ecce Spiritus
Edward F. Hayward
1881
Fate and fortune
1999
Fate and fortune
1997
Fortune's malice
Marlene Dobkin
1969
Ghost and horror stories
1990
Greek Divination A Study of its Methods and Principles
W. R. Halliday
2003
Harmony of truth
1810
I ching
Shantena Sabbadini
1998
Lazarus and his sisters discoursing of Paradise, or, A conference about the excellent things of the other world
1655
Light shining in darkness and the darkness comprehending it not, or, A short treatise on the carnal mind
1811
Magic and Divination in the Old Testament
S. A. Nigosian
2008
Magic, divination, and witchcraft among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia
Barrie Reynolds
1963
Manual of Mongolian astrology and divination
Francis Woodman Cleaves
1969