Bibliomancy
Opening a book at random and taking the first passage as an answer; sortes Biblicae and sortes Vergilianae in antiquity, still worked with scripture, poets or a chosen text.
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Opening a book at random and taking the first passage as an answer; sortes Biblicae and sortes Vergilianae in antiquity, still worked with scripture, poets or a chosen text.
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- Hold the question, open without looking, and read the first complete passage.
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