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The more obvious ones include oneiromancy, as in divination by dreams; arithmancy, which uses numbers for predictive purposes; chiromancy, for reading the future through palm lines; and ceromancy, which bases its predictions on wax poured into water.—Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
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