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
Medical divination
Henry Tomlinson
1966
Morning and evening prayers for a National School
1800
Ndembu divination
Victor Witter Turner
1961
New Norwood gipsy; or, Complete art of fortune telling
1828
Nine pennyworth of wit for a penny, or, The most exact and approved fortune teller
1800
Observations on Mr. Hindmarsh's anti-trinitarian "Reflections on the Unitarian and Trinitarian doctrines, pointing out the errors of both."
1812
On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance
Marie-Louise von Franz
1980
Oracles and Divination
Sarah Iles Johnston
2015
Oracles and Divination
Carmen Blacker, Michael Loewe
1981
Palmistry, or, The science of reading the past, present and future in the language of the hands
1886
Partridge and Flamstead's new and well experienced fortune-book
1810
Prophecy and Divination among the Hebrews and other Semites
Alfred Guillaume
1938
Prophets and Profits : Ancient Divination and Its Reception
E Hanson Richard
2017
Queries to the Sungod : divination and politics in Sargonid Assyria
Ivan Starr, Jussi Aro, Simo Parpola
1990
Remarks on a sermon published by the Rev. Isaac Robinson, A.M., pastor of the church in Stoddard, N.H., "illustrating the human and official inferiority, and supreme divinity of Christ"
T. R Sullivan
1826
Scripture its own interpreter, in relation to the character of Christ
Samuel Eddy
1818
Seeing with Different Eyes: Essays in Astrology and Divination
Angela Voss, Patrick Curry
2007
Spider divination in the Cameroons
Paul Gebauer
1964
Tarot telepathy
Thayer Manufacturing Co
1948
Terrestrial astrology: Divination by geomancy
Stephen J. Skinner
1980
The American academy of compliments; or, The complete American secretary
1805
The Bible, and nothing but the Bible
Thomas bp. of Salisbury Burgess
1815
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1891
The Complete fortune teller, or, An infallible guide to the hidden decrees of fate
1816