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Results for "scapulimancy"

3 entries found.

🇨🇳 China and 1 moreScapulimancy Divination using animal shoulder blades, practiced across Asia and the Americas.Oracle · Seeing and foretelling · Cursing and harm Living

🇨🇳 ChinaOracle bone甲骨 Divination using heated ox bones and turtle shells in ancient ChinaRite · Seeing and foretelling · Power and authority Historical

🇿🇦 South AfricaDivination bonesditaola (Sotho-Tswana), amathambo (isiZulu) Bones and carved objects used by traditional healers in South Africa to foresee the futureSeeing and foretelling · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Scapulimancy: Albert Peter Low, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Oracle bone: Unknown author, CC0, source
Divination bones: Mycelium101, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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