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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abacomancy | |
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| Aberfan | |
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| Abrams, Albert (1863-1924) | |
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| Acultomancy | |
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| Adams, Evangeline (1865-1932) | |
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| Aeromancy | |
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| AEsculapius | |
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| African Divination | |
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| Ailuromancy | |
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| Akashic Records | |
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| Alectromancy; Alectormancy; Alectryomancy | |
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| Aleuromancy | |
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| Alphitomancy | |
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| Alveromancy | |
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| Ambulomancy | |
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| American Society for Psychical Research | |
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| American Society of Dowsers | |
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| Amniomancy | |
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| Amon; Amun; Ammon | |
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| Anthomancy | |
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| Anthracomancy | |
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| Anthropomancy | |
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| Apantomancy | |
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| Apollo | |
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| Apollonius of Tyana | |
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| d'Arc, Jeanne (1412-1431) | |
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| Arithmancy; Arithmomancy | |
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| Armomancy | |
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| Aspidomancy | |
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| Astragalomancy; Astragyromancy | |
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| Astral Projection | |
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| Astrology | |
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| Augurs | |
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| Augury | |
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| Aura | |
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| Aurispicy | |
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| Austromancy | |
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| Automanzia | |
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| Automatic Writing/Drawing/Painting | |
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| Axinomancy; Axiomancy | |
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| Babylonian Zodiac | |
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| Bagoe | |
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| Batrachomancy; Batraquomancy | |
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| Belomancy; Bolomancy | |
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| Bender, Hans Georg (1907-1991) | |
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| Bible | |
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| Bibliomancy | |
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| Biorhythms | |
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| Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891) | |
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| Bletonism | |
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| Botanomancy; Botomancy | |
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| Bouly, Abbe Alex (1865-1958) | |
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| Brahan Seer (d. 1660) | |
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| British Premonitions Bureau | |
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| British Society Of Dowsers | |
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| Brontomancy | |
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| Brown, Rosemary (b. 1917) | |
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| Buchanan, Joseph Rhodes (1814-1899) | |
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| Buckland, Raymond (b. 1934) | |
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| Bumpology | |
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| Candle | |
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| Capnomancy; Captromancy | |
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| Carrington, Hereward (1881-1959) | |
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| Cartomancy | |
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| Catoptromancy; Enoptromancy | |
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| Causimancy; Causimomancy | |
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| Cayce, Edgar (1877-1945) | |
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| Celtic Astrology | |
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| Celts | |
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| Ceneromancy | |
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| Central Premonitions Registry | |
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| Cephalomancy; Cephalonomancy; Kephalonomancy | |
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| Ceraunomancy; Ceraunoscopy | |
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| Ceremonial Magic | |
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| Ceromancy; Ceroscopy | |
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| Chair Test | |
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| Channeling; Mediumship | |
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| Chaomancy | |
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| Cheiromancy; Chiromancy; Cheirosophy; Chirognomy | |
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| Chien Tung | |
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| China | |
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| Chinese Astrology | |
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| Chinese Buddhist Divination | |
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| Chinese Palmistry | |
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| Christian Qabbalah | |
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| Chronomancy | |
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| Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BCE) | |
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| Clairaudience | |
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| Clairgustance | |
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| Clairsentience | |
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| Clairvoyance | |
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| Clamancy | |
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| Cledonomancy; Cledonismancy | |
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| Cleidomancy; Clidomancy | |
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| Cleromancy | |
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| Coffee Grounds | |
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| Coins | |
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| Colorology | |
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| Combe, George (1788-1858) | |
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| Conchomancy | |
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| Copernican System | |
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| Coscinomancy; Cosquinomancy | |
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| Cratippus (First Century BCE) | |
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| Crithomancy; Critomancy | |
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| Croesus (Sixth Century BCE) | |
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| Croiset, GeRard (1909-1980) | |
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| Cromnyomancy | |
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| Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919) | |
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| Crowley, Aleister (1875-1947) | |
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| Crystallomancy | |
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| Cubomancy | |
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| Cyclomancy | |
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| Cylicomancy | |
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| Dactyliomancy | |
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| Dactyls | |
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| Daphnomancy | |
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| Dee, Dr. John (1527-1608) | |
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| Delphi | |
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| Dement, William Charles (b. 1928) | |
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| Demonomancy | |
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| Dendromancy | |
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| Deunov, Peter (1864-1944) | |
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| Dice | |
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| Divination | |
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| Dixon, Jeane (1918-1997) | |
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| Dodona | |
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| Dog | |
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| Dominoes | |
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| Dowsing | |
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| Dririmancy; Drymimancy | |
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| Dunne, John William (1875-1949) | |
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| Egyptians, Ancient | |
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| Empyromancy | |
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| Encausse, Gerard Anaclet Vincent--"Papus" (1865-1916) | |
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| Endor, Woman of | |
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| Etruscans | |
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| Extispicy; Extispex | |
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| Extrasensory Perception | |
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| Fate; Destiny | |
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| Fatidicency | |
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| Floromancy | |
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| Fodor, Nandor (1895-1964) | |
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| Forman, Simon (1552-1611) | |
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| Fortuna | |
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| Fortune Cookies | |
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| Fortune-Telling in Popular Culture | |
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| Fox, Oliver (1885-1949) | |
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| Galgal | |
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| Gall, Franz Joseph (1758-1828) | |
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| Garrett, Eileen Jeanette (1893-1970) | |
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| Gastromancy | |
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| Geloscopy; Gelotoscopy | |
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| Gematria | |
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| Gemology | |
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| Genethlialogy | |
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| Geomancy | |
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| Graphology; Graptomancy | |
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| Gray, Eden (1902-1999) | |
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| Greece | |
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| Groundhog | |
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| Gypsies | |
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| Gyromancy | |
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| Haematomancy | |
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| Halomancy | |
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| Hamon, Count Louis--"Cheiro" (1866-1936) | |
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| Harris, Frieda (1877-1962) | |
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| Hartlieb, Johann (c. 1400-1468) | |
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| Haruspication; Haruspicy; Haruspex | |
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| Hebrew | |
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| Hepatoscopy | |
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| Hieromancy | |
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| Hieroscopy | |
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| Hippomancy | |
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| Horoscope; Horoscopy | |
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| Hurkos, Peter (b. 1911) | |
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| Hydatoscopy | |
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| Hydromancy | |
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| Hypnomancy | |
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| I Ching | |
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| Ichnomancy | |
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| Ichthyomancy | |
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| Iconomancy | |
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| Idolomancy | |
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| Incubation | |
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| India | |
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| Internet Fortune-Telling | |
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| Japan | |
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| Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) | |
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| Kaplan, Stuart R. | |
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| Karma | |
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| Kelley, Edward (1555-1593) | |
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| King, Bruce--"Zolar" (1897-1976) | |
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| Kledon | |
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| Knissomancy; Libanomancy; Livanomancy | |
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| Kumulak | |
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| Labiomancy | |
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| Lake, Lissanne (b. 1956) | |
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| Lampadomancy | |
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| Lavater, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801) | |
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| Leadbeater, Charles Webster (1847-1934) | |
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| Lecanomancy | |
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| Leconomancy | |
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| Leek, Sybil (1923-1983) | |
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| Leftwich, Robert | |
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| Lenormand, Marie-Anne Adelaide (1768-1843) | |
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| Leo, Alan (1860-1917) | |
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| LeShan, Lawrence (b. 1920) | |
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| Lilly, William (1602-1681) | |
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| Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) | |
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| Lithomancy | |
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| Logomancy | |
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| Lots of Praeneste, The | |
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| Lottery | |
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| Lunomancy | |
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| Macromancy | |
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| Maculomancy | |
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| Mah-Jongg | |
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| Margaritomancy | |
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| Mathemancy | |
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| Meconomancy | |
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| Medical Radiesthesia | |
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| Mermet, Abbe Alexis (1866-1937) | |
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| Mesopotamia | |
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| Metagnome; Metagnomy | |
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| Metagraphology | |
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| Meteoromancy | |
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| Metopomancy; Metoposcopy | |
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| Mexico and Central America | |
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| Micromancy | |
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| Mikhailova, Nelya (b. 1927) | |
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| Mirror-Gazing | |
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| Moleosophy | |
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| Molybdomancy | |
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| Monroe, Robert Allan (1915-1995) | |
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| Montgomery, Ruth (1912-2001) | |
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| Moon Phases | |
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| Myers, Frederick William Henry (1843-1901) | |
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| Myomancy | |
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| Nabhi | |
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| Narcomancy | |
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| Native American | |
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| Necromancy; Nigromantia | |
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| Necyomancy | |
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| Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame) (1503-1566) | |
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| Numerology | |
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| Oculomancy | |
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| Odontomancy | |
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| OEnomancy; Oinomancy; Olinomancy | |
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| Old Testament | |
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| Old, Walter Richard "Gorn"--"Sepharial" (1864-1929) | |
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| Ololygmancy | |
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| Omen | |
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| Omoplatoscopy | |
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| O'Morgair, Malachy (Eleventh Century) | |
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| Omphalomancy | |
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| Oneiromancy | |
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| Onimancy | |
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| Onomancy | |
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| Onymancy; Onychomancy | |
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| Oomancy; Oomantia; Ooscopy | |
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| Ophidiomancy; Ophiomancy | |
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| Oracles | |
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| Orniscopy; Ornithomancy | |
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| Oryctomancy | |
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| Ossomancy; Osteomancy | |
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| Ouija and Other Talking Boards | |
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| Ouranomancy; Uranomancy | |
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| Ovomancy | |
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| Palmistry | |
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| Papon, Robert Donald (b. 1940) | |
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| Pedomancy | |
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| Pegomancy | |
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| Pessomancy | |
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| Phallomancy | |
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| Phrenology | |
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| Phyllomancy | |
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| Phyllorhodomancy | |
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| Physiognomancy; Physiognomy; Anthroposcopy | |
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| Piper, Leonore E. (1857-1950) | |
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| Planchette | |
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| Podomancy | |
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| Power Spots | |
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| Powers, Serena (b. 1966) | |
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| Precognition | |
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| Prediction | |
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| Premonition; Presentiment | |
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| Prophecy; Prophet | |
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| Psephomancy | |
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| Psychics | |
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| Psychography | |
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| Psychomancy | |
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| Psychometry; Psychoscopy | |
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| Pyramid, Great | |
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| Pyromancy | |
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| Pyromantia | |
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| Pyroscopy | |
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| Pythia | |
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| Qabbalah | |
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| Radiesthesia | |
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| Radionics | |
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| Ravens and Crows | |
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| Redcap, Old Mother | |
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| Reincarnation | |
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| Retrocognition; Retrodiction | |
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| Retromancy | |
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| Rhabdomancy | |
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| Rhapsodomancy | |
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| Rhine, Dr. Joseph Banks (1895-1980) | |
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| Robertson, Morgan Andrew (1861-1915) | |
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| Rome | |
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| Roses | |
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| Runemal | |
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| Runes | |
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| Saxon Wands | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Scapulimancy; Scapulomancy | |
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| Scatomancy; Scatoscopy | |
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| Schematomancy | |
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| Sciomancy | |
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| Scotland | |
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| Scrying; Skrying | |
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| Seances | |
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| Second Sight | |
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| Seer/Seeress | |
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| Selenomancy | |
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| Shaman | |
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| Shell Hearing | |
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| "Shipton, Mother" (1488-1561) | |
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| Siberian and Lapp | |
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| Sibyl | |
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| Sibylline Books | |
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| Sibylline Oracles | |
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| Sideromancy | |
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| Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900) | |
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| Smith, Pamela Colman (1878-1951) | |
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| Smith, Robert Cross--"Raphael" (1795-1832) | |
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| Sneeze | |
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| Soal, Samuel George (1889-19??) | |
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| Society for Psychical Research | |
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| Soothsayer | |
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| Sorcery | |
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| Sortes | |
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| Sortilege | |
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| Spasmatomancy | |
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| Spatilomancy | |
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| Spheromancy | |
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| Spider | |
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| Spiritualism | |
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| Spodanomancy; Spodomancy | |
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| Stercomancy | |
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| Stichomancy | |
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| Stoicheomancy | |
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| Stolisomancy | |
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| Sun Signs | |
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| Svantovit; Svetovit | |
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| Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1722) | |
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| Sycomancy | |
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| Table Tipping; Table Turning | |
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| Tages | |
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| Taoism | |
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| Tarot | |
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| Tasseography | |
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| Tephramancy; Tephromancy | |
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| Teraphim | |
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| Thailand | |
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| Theomancy | |
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| Thomas the Rhymer (c. 1220-1297) | |
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| Thoth | |
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| Thrioboly | |
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| Tibet | |
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| Tiromancy; Tyromancy | |
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| Topomancy | |
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| Trees | |
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| Tripod | |
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| Tripudiary; Tripudium | |
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| Trochomancy | |
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| Tympana | |
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| Typtology | |
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| Urimancy; Uromancy; Urinomancy; Oromancy | |
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| Vasiliev, Leonid (1891-1966) | |
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| Vaticination | |
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| Vedic Astrology | |
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| Virgilian Lots | |
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| Voudon; Voodoo | |
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| Waite, Arthur Edward--"Grand Orient" (1857-1942) | |
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| Watkins, Alfred (1855-1935) | |
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| Witness | |
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| De Wohl, Louis (1903-1961) | |
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| Wood, Robin (b. 1953) | |
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| Xenomancy | |
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| Xylomancy | |
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| Yggdrasil | |
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| Yin and Yang | |
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| Zener Cards | |
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| Zodiac | |
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| Zoomancy | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |