Pegomancy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    divination by fountains uncountable

    "This was the Pegomancy of the Greeks; who also solicited the answer of the Nymphs of the Spring, by offerings of bread, stones, or coins, or by dipping in a mirror, and construing the figures which the water had left on it."

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"This was the Pegomancy of the Greeks; who also solicited the answer of the Nymphs of the Spring, by offerings of bread, stones, or coins, or by dipping in a mirror, and construing the figures which the water had left on it."

Etymology

Ancient Greek πηγή (pēgḗ, “fountain”) + -mancy.

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