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Month of Blogging Challenge: I is for Ichthyomancy

10/4/2015

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I originally had itching for this letter, however technically used it for E instead since that was a much harder letter to find anything for. Then I was going to do I-Ching, but that's really obvious, right?

So instead I have Ichthyomancy, which is (according to occultopedia.com) also known as Ichyomancy, Ichthiomantia, and another four names also beginning with I. It is, as the name suggests, divination by fish.

Observing the appearance and behaviour of the fish falls into the category of theriomancy, which is the study of animals and their behaviour. Often the fish was placed in a consecrated pool. Interpreting the entrails and heads is a form of augury, and falls into aruspicina - the same messy branch as yesterday's haruspicy.
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