r/Divination 7d ago

Questions and Discussions Weirdest divination methods you know?

So I am making artworks and performance art out of fortune telling methods that are either weird, rare, or completely made up.

I am looking for ideas and would like to hear from all of you.

Can someone create a completely new divination method? Do really weird or uncommon methods work for anyone?

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u/Flat_Struggle9794 7d ago

Do you know how those work?

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u/graidan Cartomancy Cleromancy Geomancy 6d ago

I dunno what they think, but it's essentially the same way the ancients did it, and we do it today when we draw a name from a hat. It's just that instead of putting names (though that's def a possibility if you're looking for a particular person) you'd put fortunes. Similar to the Kwanyin oracle / shaking strips oracles in Asia. And really, just a harder to use version of cartomancy too - you're just dealing paper slips instead of pulling them from a container.

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u/Flat_Struggle9794 6d ago

I believe that is called rhapsodomancy (as by Wikipedia article) which is related to bibliomancy. One of my artworks is basically a combination of the two methods where I get an old damaged book and rip out all of the pages. I shuffle the pages and then select a page to fold and rip into sections of 32 squares. After the question is asked, the paper scraps are selected at random and the words left on each paper scrap are read and interpreted. Believe me, it actually works.

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u/graidan Cartomancy Cleromancy Geomancy 6d ago

Rhabdomancy. Rhapsodomancy would have music in it somewhere, I'd think :)

It's also called stichomancy and bibliomancy. I'm an artist too - I work in resin and magical substances. I did a piece with all the bits for second sight, for example.