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[[Image:Rhumsiki crab sorceror.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A diviner in [[Rhumsiki]], [[Cameroon]].]]
[[Image:Rhumsiki crab sorceror.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A diviner in [[Rhumsiki]], [[Cameroon]].]]
'''Divination''' (Greek μαντεια, from μαντις "[[seer]]") is an attempt to get [[information]] through [[omen]]s or [[supernatural]] things. The [[:verb|verb]] form is ''to divine'', but this should not be confused with the [[:adjective|adjective]] ''divine''. Divining the outcome of things has been done by many different [[:method|methods]], such as the ones listed below.
'''Divination''' (Greek μαντεια, from μαντις "[[seer]]") is an attempt to get [[information]] through [[omen]]s or [[supernatural]] things. The [[:verb|verb]] form is ''to divine'', but this should not be confused with the [[:adjective|adjective]] ''divine''. Divination is different from [[fortune-telling]]. Divination is more [[ritual]], usually [[religion|religious]]. Fortune-telling is more for personal things.
Divining the outcome of things has been done by many different [[:method|methods]], such as the ones listed in the section below.
== Types of divination ==
== Types of divination ==
* [[Ailuromancy]] (by the behaviour of felines)
* [[Ailuromancy]] (by the behaviour of felines)
* [[Astrology]] (by studying celestial bodies)
* [[Augury]] (by the flight of birds)
* [[Augury]] (by the flight of birds)
* [[Aura-Soma]], based on colors
* [[Aura-Soma]], based on colors
* [[Automatic writing]] (writing when being used as a channel or medium)
* [[Bibliomancy]] (by book, frequently but not always a religious text)
* [[Bibliomancy]] (by book, frequently but not always a religious text)
* [[Cartomancy]] (by cards, e.g., playing cards, tarot cards, and non-tarot oracle cards; see also Taromancy)
* [[Cartomancy]] (by cards, e.g., playing cards, tarot cards, and non-tarot oracle cards; see also Taromancy)
== Divination Media ==
== Divination Media ==
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File:Divination display at the Pitt Rivers Museum.jpg|Display on divination, featuring a cross-cultural range of items, in the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] in [[Oxford]], [[England]]
File:Divination display at the Pitt Rivers Museum.jpg|Display on divination, featuring a cross-cultural range of items, at the [[Pitt Rivers Museum]] in [[Oxford]], [[England]]
File:ChickenDivination.jpg|[[Russia]]n peasant girls using [[chicken]]s for divination; 19th-century [[lubok]].
File:ChickenDivination.jpg|[[Russia]]n peasant girls using [[chicken]]s for divination; 19th-century [[lubok]].