Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SCAPULIMANCY

Definitions of SCAPULIMANCY

1. divination using shoulder bones

Examples of Using SCAPULIMANCY in a Sentence

• However in Renaissance magic was classified as one of the seven "forbidden arts", along with black magic, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, chiromancy (palmistry), and scapulimancy.
• In Renaissance magic, pyromancy was classified as one of the seven "forbidden arts", along with necromancy, geomancy, aeromancy, hydromancy, chiromancy (palmistry), and scapulimancy.
• Scapulimancy is the specific term if ox scapulae were used for the divination, plastromancy if turtle plastrons were used.
• Scapulimancy (also spelled scapulomancy and scapulamancy, also termed omoplatoscopy or speal bone reading) is the practice of divination by use of scapulae or speal bones (shoulder blades).
• in 1456, the seven artes prohibitae or artes magicae, arts prohibited by canon law, were expounded by Johannes Hartlieb, their sevenfold partition reflecting that of the artes liberales and artes mechanicae, were: nigromancy (black or demonic magic), geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, chiromancy, and scapulimancy.
• Some of the first inventions of Neolithic China include semilunar and rectangular stone knives, stone hoes and spades, the cultivation of millet and the soybean, the refinement of sericulture, rice cultivation, the creation of pottery with cord-mat-basket designs, the creation of pottery vessels and pottery steamers and the development of ceremonial vessels and scapulimancy for purposes of divination.
• The categories were nigromancy, geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, chiromancy, and scapulimancy.

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