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
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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
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Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesvuntini de divinatione et magicis præstigiis: quarum veritas ac vanitas solidè exponitur per descriptionem deorum fatidicorum qui olim responsa dederunt; eorundemque prophetarum, sacerdotum, Phoebadum, Sibyllarum et divinorum qui priscis temporibus celebres oraculis exstiterunt
Johann Theodor de Bry
1611Latin
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Trattato del r.p.m. Paolo Antonio Foscarini, theologo Carmelitano della divinatione naturale cosmologica, ouero de' pronostici e presagii natvrali, delle mutatione de' tempi, etc
Paolo Antonio Foscarini
1615Italian
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Commentarius de praecipuis generibus diuinationum, in quo a prophetiis autoritate diuina traditis et à physicis coniecturis, discernuntur artes et imposturae diabolicae, atque observationes natae ex superstitione et cum hac conjunctae. Et monstrantur fontes et causae physicarum praedictionum. Diabolicae vero ac superstitiosae confutatae damnantur
Burndy Library
1572Latin
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Historia decorum fatidicorvm vatum, sibyllarum, phoebadvm, apvd priscos illvstrium: cum eorum iconibus. Praeposita est disertatio de divinatione & cracvlis
Pierre Mussard
1675Latin
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Pāśakakevalī, circa 1700-1850
Garga
1700Sanskrit
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Stories of Norse Gods and Heroes
Annie Klingensmith
1894
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Tricassi Cerasariensis Mantuani super Chyromantiam Coclytis
Patricio Tricasso
1525Latin
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De chyromantia libri III
Johann Dryander
1538Latin
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Gaṇitanāmamālā, 1782
Śāmabhaṭṭa Phaḍake
1782Sanskrit
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La physiognomonie et la phrénologie, ou connaissance de l'homme d'après les traits du visage et les reliefs du crane; examen critique des systèmes d'Aristote, de Porta, de La Chambre, de Camper, de Lavater, de Gall et de Spurzheim
Jean Baptiste Isidore Bourdon
1842French
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Ramalasāra, circa 1700-1850
Śrīpati Miśra
1700Sanskrit
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De Graecorum extispiciis [microform]
Cornelius Cuntz
1826Latin
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La physiognomonie et la phrenologie, ou connaissance de l'homme d'après les traits du visage & les reliefs du crane. Examen critique des systèmes d'Aristote, de Porta, de La Chambre, de Camper, de Lavater, de Gall et de Spurzheim
Jean Baptiste Isidore Bourdon
1842French
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Bartholomei Coclitis Chyromantie ac Phyſionomie Anaſtaſis: cum appꝛobatiõe magiſtri Alexãdri Achillinis
Bartholomaeus Cocles
1523Latin
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Das himmelreich auf erden. Eine divination der zukunft.
W Drabitius
1870German
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Pañcapakṣi
1700Sanskrit
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Saṅkrāntiphala
1700Sanskrit
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Tarot De Los Bohemios
Gérard Encausse
1892Spanish
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Camatkāracintāmaṇi, 1688
1688Sanskrit
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Das germanische Runen-Fudark
Fiske Icelandic Collection. NIC, Franz Joseph Lauth
1857German
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I misteri della negromanzia moderna; trattato storicocritico
Luigi Ovidi
1865Italian
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Ḥall al-ṭilsam wa-kashf al-sirr al-mubham
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ghamrī
1772Arabic
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Lavater's looking-glass; or, Essays on the face of animated nature, from man to plants
1800
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Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif
Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Fawātiḥ al-raghāʼib fī khuṣūṣīyāt al-kawākib, Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Laṭāʼif al-ishārah fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-kawākib al-sayyārah, Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Mīzān al-ʻadl fī maqāṣid aḥkām al-raml, Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Zahr al-murūj fī dalāʼil al-buruj, Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
1345Arabic