English

Alternative forms

• ydromancy
• hydromancie
• hydromantie
• hydromanty

Noun

hydromancy ‎(usually uncountable, plural hydromancies)

1. Divination by water or other liquid.
   • 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica, 3 edition:

     Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.

   • 1985, Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi, ISBN 0801883466:

     Hydromancy, like many other methods of divination, seems to have originated in Babylonia and reached the Greco-Roman world via Egypt, in the first century b.c. or earlier.

Derived terms

• hydromancer
• hydromantic

Related terms

• hydatoscopy

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