hydromancy

Hydromancy was an ancient art occasionally revived among such leisured populations.

An attached aedicule for the practice of hydromancy.

Marko then stooped over a well and saw no reflection of his head from the water, hydromancy thus confirming the vilas words.

Hydromancy: by water.

See scrying, specifically hydromancy.

If the medium is water (hydromancy), then the visions may come from the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool.

In a fifth method of hydromancy mysterious words are pronounced over a glass of water, then observations are made of its spontaneous ebullience.

The division between the four "elemental" disciplines (viz., geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy) is somewhat contrived.

Elven, urZrethi, Murosan, Zhusk, and even hydromancy."

You know, Oreb, there really is-or was-a science of hydromancy, by which the officiating augur read Scylla's will in the patterns of waves.

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

The seventh method of hydromancy was cited by Clemens Alexandrinus who cited that women of Germany watched the whirls and courses of rivers for prognostic interpretations.

Here a Sacristan once taught magic, judicial astrology, geomancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, acromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, &c. The extract goes on to state that seven students engaged at a time with the Sacristan, at a fixed stipend.

Almost all bookstores here have a section flooded with publications on fortunetelling, from primers on palm reading and tarot cards to elaborate readings on hydromancy - water is the medium - and interpreting the combination of letters used in writing one's name.

Isidore of Seville lists geomancy with other methods of divination including pyromancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, and necromancy without describing its application or methods; it could be that Isidore of Seville was listing methods of elemental scrying more than what is commonly known as geomancy.