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Pyromancy

noun
1.
Divination by fire or flames.





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"Pyromancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the emperor's table sit many philosophers that be proved for wise men in many diverse sciences, as of astronomy, necromancy, geomancy, pyromancy, hydromancy, of augury and of many other sciences. And everych of them have before them astrolabes of gold, some spheres, some the brain pan of a dead man, some vessels of gold full of gravel or sand, some vessels of gold full of coals burning, some vessels of gold ...
— The Travels of Sir John Mandeville • Author Unknown
... i.e. dematerializing at will; (7) walking on, and breathing under, water; (8) inflicting all manner of diseases and torments; (9) curing all kinds of diseases; (10) converting people into beasts and minerals; (11) foretelling the future by palmistry, pyromancy, hydromancy, astrology, etc.; (12) conjuring up all manner of spirits antagonistic to men's moral progress, ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell


Words linked to "Pyromancy" :   soothsaying, foretelling, pyromancer, fortune telling, divination


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