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Lithomancy

Lithomancy \Lith"o*man`cy\, n. [Litho- + -mancy: cf. F. lithomancie.] Divination by means of stones.

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lithomancy

n. divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).

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lithomancy

n. divination by means of stones or stone talismans

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Lithomancy

Lithomancy is a form of divination by which the future is told using stones or the reflected light from said stones. The practice is most popular in the British Isles.

Usage examples of "lithomancy".

An hour later, the train halted at some crummy town: a water tower, a lithomancy pylon, a tractor depot, a straggle of houses.

The poor old woman is capable of little more than clacking her false teeth and listening to that lithomancy gibberish.

The lumpy landscape of the Massif crawled past, irrigated fields between outcrops and escarpments crested with olive groves and lemon trees, gnarled pines, windmill generators and lithomancy poles.

It was a natural and spontaneous lithomancy, and it carried no rumors to him.