The Liver of Piacenza, a model of a sheep's liver used in Etruscan divination and unearthed in Italy in 1877. | Shonagon, Wikimedia // CC0 1.0 (cropped) The swirling shapes made by pouring melted wax ...
Source: Heinrich Stürzl / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons We can define divination as using a systematic approach in order to try to gain insight into a situation or problem (Peek, 1991). In the ...
In the late 1740s, Samuel Meadwell arrived in London. A “raw country fellow” from Northamptonshire, he had come to work as a distiller’s apprentice and hoped to make his fortune. When a pair of women ...
Folklorist Norman (Faerie Stones) delivers a detailed manual on how to use the druidic Ogham alphabet to gain insight into the future. She discusses the alphabet’s first appearance on stones in ...