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My mother could never
read a book without reading
the last pages first — “I want
to seé how it turns out before
spending all that time
reading a story that doesn't
end right” she would ex-
plain.

I. never fully understood’
her reasoning but perhaps it
is the same desire which
makes. many of us read.
horoscopes or try to learn
about the future re it

s Ive
never bothered to have my

future ‘read’ as I find the .

unknown

events. of

tomorrow or next week
more exciting by’ having ©
them ‘Pop. up’ without
warning.

I do however believe that
one can influence the future
by the power of positive -
thinking — if a person
desires something .strongly
enough (with all his being, as
they say) there is a very good
chance that the desire will be .
satisfied.

The number of methods
that man has devised to
’ predict the future is quite
astonishing but even more
astonishing are some of the
materials used in making
predictions.

There are the ‘regular’
methods, of course, which
rely on cards, stars and hand
impressions — but did you
ever hear of Tiromancy?
That is an odd form of
divination utilizing cheese!

Or how about Sycomancy?
This can be done in two Ways
— first by writing messages
on tree leaves; the slower
they dry, the better. the
omen. A more modern way
is to write questions on slips
of paper, roll them: up and
hold them in a strainer above
a steaming pot. Whichever
paper unfolds first will be the

Look into the futur re

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one answered. But you must
incl

ude a blank slip with the
collection.

And next time .you eat
Chinese: food and get .your
fortune cookies, think about

A strange method that
really intrigues me has the
improbable name _ of
Phyllorhodomancy. — This
divination method dates

from: ‘ancient Greece and”

-consists. Of slapping rose
petals against the hand —
one. judges the future suc-.

cess of a venture according .

to the loudness of the soufid
produced. A rose is a rose is
a slap.

And here’ 's-one that could

clear the backlog of court .
. cases in no time at all. Called

Margaritomancy, it is a
procedure _Uutilizing “pearls —

our mysterious world

Aleuroman y — if you can.
In this cient - method, |
answers to. questions. were
written on paper slips, rolled
in balls of dough and then
baked. The dough balls-were -
‘mixed up and one pickéd out
at random. The. beauty: of
this system is that even if one
is dissatisfied with the an- .
swer, you can always eat. |

You'll be pleased to hear
that Anthropomancy has
been outlawed. I don’t know
quite what the method was
but it involved human
sacrifice. Perhaps this was
the favorite of the Aztec
priests who used to do-

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by George Cunningham-Tee

which were supposed to
bounce upward beneath an
‘inverted pot if a guilty
person approached.

Although not strictly a
means of predicting the
future it nevertheless could
have a definite influence on
the future of those ‘sen-
tenced’ by the jumping
- pearls.

-- The ingenuity of the

| ancients knew no bounds in
looking for omens. or

divinatory materials. They |

could even find significance
in onion sprouts. (Crom-
niomancy) or unmelted wax
poured into cold water
(Ceroscopy) where  in-
terpretations were made
from the forming bubbles.

Quite a number of omen-
methods: are still with us
although you would never
recognize them by their
Sunday names. Next time
you react when a black cat
crosses your path you will be
practising Apantomancy.
This is a method which
forecasts from chance
meetings with animals, birds
and other creatures.

—of particular predictions
stems from a= general
principle.

In the - ‘imaginary’
classification, predictions

several nasty things with
their heartfelt victims.

There is more to the art of
making predictions than first

- meets the eye and much of”

the methodology. is scien-
tifically based and classified.
Different classifications have
different applications: for
éxample the deductive
classification has its basis in
verifiable laws and is ap-
plicable in science and
sociology where deduction

stem from the unconscious
through visions'‘or dreams.

There are dozens of
strange methods that we
can’t even touch upon but
perhaps the one that ‘tickles
my fancy’ the most is called
Geloscopy — this was the art
of divination from the tone
of someone's laughter.

Students will supply their
own feather.

‘Copyright 1979 ©
Toronto Sun Syndicate

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