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
- Read free
Grand jeu de société
Marie-Anne Adélaïde Le Normand
1845French
- Read free
La magie et la divination chez les Chaldéo-Assyriens
A. Laurent
1894French
- Read free
Pallīpatana
1700Sanskrit
- Read free
Thorney Computus
Abbo of Fleury, Bede, Dionysius Exiguus, monk of Granval Helperic of Auxerre
1110
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Chiromantiae theorica practica concordantia genethliaca, vetustis novitate addita, autore Joanne Rothmanno med. & philos
Johannes. Auteur Rothmann
1595Latin
- Read free
Fisionomia e mimica
Paolo Mantegazza
1881Italian
- Read free
Fisonomia e mimica
Paolo Mantegazza
1881Italian
- Read free
Hāyanaratna. Adhyāya 6, circa 1700-1850
Balabhadra
1700Sanskrit
- Read free
La geomance, par laquelle on peut prevoir, deviner & predire toutes choses doubteuses & incertaines. Science repurgee des superfluitez qui l'offusquoyent, separee de l'astrologie, & reduicte à sa pure simplicité & vraye purité ancienne, pour les gens d'esprit, par tables briefves & familieres. Par G. Tayssonniere gentilhomme dombois
Guillaume de La Tayssonnière
1575French
- Read free
Praśnatantra, 1751
Nīlakaṇṭha
1751Sanskrit
- Read free
Reason, the Only Oracle of Man; Or, A Compendius System of Natural Religion
Ethan Allen
Date unknown
- Read free
The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual
William Kitchiner
Date unknown
- Read free
The Juggler's Oracle; or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open
Herman Boaz
Date unknown
- Read free
The Square of Sevens: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note
Edward Prime-Stevenson
Date unknown
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The traveller's oracle; or, maxims for locomotion, part 2 (of 2)
John Jervis, William Kitchiner
Date unknown
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Trattato del R.P.M. Paolo Antonio Foscarini ... della divinatione naturale cosmologica, ouero, De' pronostici e presagii naturali, delle mutationi de tempi &c
Paolo Antonio Foscarini
1615Italian
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Young Swaigder; or, The Force of Runes, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
Date unknown
- Read free
Jyotisāgagrantha, 1800
Rāmacandra Cāpekara
1800Sanskrit
- Read free
Lomaśasaṃhitā. Adhyāya 1-8, circa 1700-1850
Maharṣi Lomaśa
1700Sanskrit
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Mayūracitraka, circa 1700-1850
Nārada
1700Sanskrit
- Read free
Clairvoyance naturelle et somnanbulisme dévoilés
Gesualda Antoinette
1899French
- Read free
His Perpetual Almanack, with Astrological Rules and Instructions Directing to an Exact Knowledge of all Future Things Till the Morrow After Doomsday
1663
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La geomancie et nomancie des anciens. La nomancie cabalistique. Avec L'heure du berger
da Sabbioneta Gherardo
1687French
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Pārāśarīhorāpaddhati, 1792
Parāśara
1792Sanskrit