My mother could—never one answere

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 before it
happens. Personally I’ve
never bothered to. have my.

' future ‘read’ as I find the .

unknown events of

tomorrow_or__next week—

mofe exciting by ‘having
them ‘pop up’ without-
warning.

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f

ut you must
-include a blank slip with the
collection.

A strange method that
really intrigues me has the
improbable
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 sound
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 utilizing pearls

og.

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 d 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. “4

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

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d next time -you eat
Chinese food and get ‘your

fortunie_cookies,-think-about .

Aleuromancy — if you can.
In this ancient. 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 picked out

at random. The beauty of |

this system is that even if one
s dissatisfied with the an-
swerj 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

hich were supposed to

bounce upward beneath an

inverted. pot if a guilty
person approached.

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

The ingenuity of, the
ancients knew bounds in
looking for omens or

divinatory materials. They.

gous even find significance
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
mectings with animals, birds
and other creatures.

Bb y George Cunningham- Tee

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
example the deductive
classification has its basis in
verifiable laws and is ap-
plicable in science and
sociology where deduction
of particular predictions

stems from aé_e general

principle: . 2
In the ‘imaginary’

classification, predictions

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.

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own feather.

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