...Their powers of divination approach the uncanny...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Ifthe woman had no such dream, it fell to the father or the relativesto determine the name by divination or by consulting a wizard...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...But we may be pretty sure that this is one of thecases in which magic has dwindled into divination...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The Mafulu sorcerers are a somewhat less powerful people; but they claim, and are supposed to have, certain powersof divination, or actual causation, or both, of certain things...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...I may add that I was led tosuspect that the burning test was regarded as being only a matter of divination, and that the causation, if it occurred, waseffected by means of the previous incantation...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...[The Midsummer fires in Spain and the Azores; divination onMidsummer Eve in the Azores; the Midsummer fires in Corsica andSardinia...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...[Hallowe'en bonfires in the Highlands of Scotland; John Ramsay'saccount of the Hallowe'en bonfires; divination from stones at thefire; Hallowe'en fires in the parishes of Callander andLogierait...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...It wasnecessary that the plants should be stolen without the knowledge orconsent of their owner; otherwise they were quite useless for thepurpose of divination...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...These forms of divination in the house were practised by thecompany in a body; but the following had to be performed by theperson alone...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...Again, divination was practisedby means of a cake called barm-breac, in which a nut and aring were baked...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...[Hallowe'en fires in the Isle of Man; divination at Hallowe'enin the Isle of Man...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
... The Tongans also believed in a mode of divination (essentially similar to the casting of lots) the twirling of a cocoanut...
Thomas Henry Huxley 「The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study」
...Men were not content to observethe heavenly bodies for what they were; they endeavoured to make themthe sources of divination...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...But the persons who first invented thosemeans of divination can have had no such reasons...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
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