catoptromancy
Sign in to savethumb|Russian folk catoptromancy by Karl Briullov, 1836 Catoptromancy (from Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον katoptron, "mirror," and μαντεία manteia, "divination"), also known as captromancy or enoptromancy, is divination using a mirror.
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- Greece and Rome
- Egypt
- China
- India
- Use in early Europe
- In popular culture
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thumb|Russian folk catoptromancy by Karl Briullov, 1836 Catoptromancy (from Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον katoptron, "mirror," and μαντεία manteia, "divination"), also known as captromancy or enoptromancy, is divination using a mirror.
== History == ===Greece and Rome=== Pausanias, an ancient Greek traveler, described the practice as follows:
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