#scapulimancy

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Scapulimancic

or Osteomancic, is a gender connected to divination using bones.

this gender may feel wise, skeletal in some way, and like a form of old magic. it may also feel like old cracked bones that tell a story or warning.

names: Bone Skele / Skelly / Skellie Skull

pronouns: Bone/Bones Osteo/Mancy Scapuli/Mancy Skull/Skulls

[afieryflyingroule]

https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-read-bones-like-a-scapulimancer/

“For the Shang, the scapula bone worked like a radio, tuning in to the spirit world.“

& as a wise healer pointed out to me on Monday, “the signal comes in the form of a crack.”

[goth-elvhen]

A Basic Introduction to Pyromancy

Hello! After receiving many questions about the topic, I thought it would be a good idea to take a moment and create a basic guide on pyromancy, my preferred methods of divination.

To start, you should know that pyromancy is the term used to describe any form of divination by means of fire; ‘pyro’ coming from the Greek word ‘pyros’ meaning fire. I consider pyromancy to be a blanket term for a variety of different fire-based divination practices. I.e., lychnomancy can be categorized as pyromancy.

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“Due to the importance of fire in society from the earliest of times, it is quite likely that pyromancy was one of the earlier forms of divination. It is said that in Greek society, virgins at the Temple of Athena in Athens regularly practiced pyromancy. It is also possible that followers of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and the forge, practiced pyromancy.

In Renaissance magic, pyromancy was classified as one of the seven "forbidden arts," along with necromancy, geomancy, aeromancy, hydromancy, chiromancy (palmistry), and spatulamancy (scapulimancy)” - From the Wikipedia page on Pyromancy.

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Now, what exactly is pyromancy and how does one practice it? Well, the most basic form of pyromancy is done when the diviner observes flames from a sacrificial fire, a candle, or another source of flame, and interprets the shapes that they see within them. However, this is not the only way to practice pyromancy. 

In fact, there are several different kinds of divination that all stem from and fall under the category of pyromancy or use pyromancy. Such as:

Alomancy:, divination by salt, one type of which involves casting salt into a fire.

Botanomancy: divination by burning plants.

Capnomancy: divination by smoke; light, thin smoke that rose straight up was a good omen; otherwise, a bad one.

Causinomancy: divination by burning (non-specific as to the object burned).

Daphnomancy (also, Empyromancy): divination by burning laurel leaves.

Lychnomancy: divination by reading the flames of three candles set in a triangular shape.

Osteomancy: divination using bones, one type of which involves heating to produce cracks.

Scapulimancy:, divination by scapulae; in Asia and North America, this was done pyromantically.

Sideromancy: divination by burning straw with an iron.

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I hope that this small introduction intro pyromancy was able to answer some of your burning questions! If you are still curious about anything or want to know more about something specific, please feel free to send me a message or to respond to this post. I don’t guarantee that I’ll have the exact answer, but creating a discussion and opening it up to my other followers might help you find one.

                                                                                       Practice safely!

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[doridoxidae]

i really love divination and its very important to me so i want to somehow weave it into the story i want to create with my yumeship! but i dont want it to alter the canon in such a drastic way where everyone is using divination and its a widespread thing. something small, perhaps contained to a few villages far from any major towns/cities.

im not sure about any forms of cartomancy because that feels to me (please correct me if im wrong!) like something you wouldnt be able to make quickly in a village in a world where divination isnt widespread or practiced at all... even.

perhaps something with bones? or nature? they'd be hunting animals for food so they'd have bones on hands like all the time!

maybe a handful of smaller bones that you can fit into your hands that when thrown have some sort of meaning? perhaps the positioning of the bones is what determines the reading? each bone would have its own meaning passed down in the village tradition or something?? so the local villages bone meaning may vary slightly.

much to think about... i'm not sure yet! but i really would love to somehow incorporate some form of divination into this story :3

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