Mar. 26—Margie Florimbio held a shiny chunk of rock up for her audience to see. It was lepidolite, she explained, a type of mineral containing flakes of lithium, and the energy from which Florimbio ...

Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 79, No. 1, Knowledge in Practice: Expertise and the Transmission of Knowledge (2009), pp. 110-127 (18 pages) This essay describes the ...

More than 30 per cent of Americans believe in some sort of esoteric knowledge and regularly consult astrology, tarot readers or fortune tellers, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Centre ...

Some questions are hard to answer and always have been. Does my beloved love me back? Should my country go to war? Who stole my goats? Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world ...

Young, urban Chinese are going gaga for divination techniques, be they Western methods like astrology and tarot cards, or homegrown practices such as the bazi, or Eight Trigrams: eight Taoist ...

Gypsyfortuneteller is still a popular, but unfortunate, Halloween costume. Fortune telling, particularly cartomancy in this case, isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people ― it’s a ...

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 ...

Astrology and divination, present in diverse religions, involve seeking guidance through various methods like interpreting stars and seeking advice from religious leaders, impacting cultural beliefs ...

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