The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-18
The Strange
Things People
Believe.
:. SQlpergfj1i0ng.
ARTICLE NO. Il.

right it was good luck, il to the left. it
was for evil The cry or song of a bird
was oninous. The wish-bone of q fowl
is one form of this superstition common
in modern times.
Alec TT m q n c was a maans Of
fortune telling, wherein chicken played
the chief part by picking grains off GER
tair letters, the choice spelling out good
or evil fortune.
onyc m ancy explained the future
by means Of spots upon the finger nails.
Clidomancy decided the guilt
through q key tied to Bible and hung
on a maids ring finger, the key nov
ing when the name Of the culprit was
called.
Ri do m ancy detected crime by
standing two slaves of wood against
each other and talking to them until
under the incarnation they fell down, and
the director announced guilt or in
nocence.
Harus ptc'ation was deadly
test. In it the victim was slain on the
altar and the future read by the twist
of his entails IF frogs by croaking,'
Cicero makes his stole say, can give us
signs to foretell the weather, why should
there not be omens in the fbres Of
victims entrals?"
ca p m a y foretells the future
from the rising smoke and the direction
in which it drifts
Aeromancy augurs from winds and
clouds.
Hydr ON c tells of the future
by the water. The spirits troubled tha
face of the sea or pond and the clew
was found in the lines produced. Else
a ri WAS hing " thread over oiaSS
Of water and shaken and the message
| was given by the strokes en- the glass;
or three pebbles We're dropped into u
well and the future read from the figures
caused by the widening circles
PaIom ancy is divination by foIlnt-
aims into which loaves of bread W,
thrown the swimming or sinking in
dicating guilt or innocence.
Scyph fancy is divining by a
drinking cup. When the foundation of
Persepolis were laid there was found the
cup of Djemscheed, full of the elixir
Immortality, and while the Persians re-
tanned the cup their empire lived. Tip
poo Sehib returned from battle to con-
suit his divining cup and fled from it in
terror to die in the breach.
BeIom fancy was divining by ar
rows on which We're written the names
of cities to be attached. EzslEel xxi, q,
says: ''Ie made his arrows bright he
consulted with images, he looked in the
liver Two modes of divination by
which the king of Babylon proposed to
find out the viii of God. He took a Dun
ole of arrows, put them together, mixed
them up then pulled forth. one and by
the inscription on it decided what city
he should first assault Then an animal
was slain, and by the lighter or darker
u
er prospect of success was inferred.
otan IN ancy was divina ton by
means of plants and flowers. As prac-
ticed by TIE ancients poppy flowers or
seed pods were bruised or broken be-
twixt their hands under he conviction
that they could discover their lovers.
Goethe makes use of the superstition
which existed among Teutonic races as
well as the Greeks. The child like Mar
| Guerite, in Faust seeks to discover
whether Faust loves her b. pluc1ing the
leaves of the star flower, murmuring al
! ternately He loves me-" ''He loves me
! not" and finds TO her JOY that the last
| leaf comes away while she is saying "He
| loves me-"
n gro m nc is a mode Of divf-
nation by the ccnjuriEg up of the dead
| to question them concerning the future
The story of the witch of Sud3r' is
remarkable instance of it tod in the
Old Testament, which has not little
perplexed Interpreters OF Scripture Ne
cromancy was a profession In Greece
! ara otfer countri in early ages ard
his orT tells 81 lcrrid -ttes IN connection
saeravitu. inc eles nth book 10
m odyssey 4o,es he casing W. os
e Shade os T-resias by Ulysses
Cicero in his elaborate work
ION Divination" gives very many onens
and magical charms Of early Romans.
Egyptian and BabyIonish sorcerers who
thronged the temple of Rome, when
their diyination were well received. It
being then the religious system of con-
sulting the Gods.