libanomancy
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thumb|right|Burning incense gives off complex patterns of smoke Libanomancy (also known as livanomancy and knissomancy) is a divination primarily through observing and interpreting burning incense smoke, but which may include the way incense ash falls as well. Like most other methods of divination, during libanomancy a specific question must be asked. The incense smoke provides an answer, but the smoke must be interpreted by a diviner.
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It is catalogued under the topic Divination.
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History of libanomancy
- Interpretation of the smoke
- See also
- Footnotes
thumb|right|Burning incense gives off complex patterns of smoke Libanomancy (also known as livanomancy and knissomancy) is a divination primarily through observing and interpreting burning incense smoke, but which may include the way incense ash falls as well. Like most other methods of divination, during libanomancy a specific question must be asked. The incense smoke provides an answer, but the smoke must be interpreted by a diviner.
The "libano-" in the word "libanomancy" is taken from the greek word "libanos", which means "frankincense". That is because frankincense was burned for the purpose of incense-divination.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “libanomancy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.