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Lecanomancy   Listen
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Lecanomancy  n.  Divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought.






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"Lecanomancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... observed particularly fine cases of intro-determination in a series of experiments in basin divination (lecanomancy) which I have carried on for several years. Lecanomancy resembles crystal gazing, except that the gazer looks into a basin of water. In the visions of my subject, Lea, typical forms were pictured, which always recurred. Regarded as symbols ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer



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