Pyromancy
Divination by flame: its colour, height, movement, crackle and extinction; classical, and surviving in modern candle-reading.
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- Tools
- Candle
Nature and meaning
- Category
- Fire
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- Summary
Divination by flame: its colour, height, movement, crackle and extinction; classical, and surviving in modern candle-reading.
- Method
- Read the flame in silence for a fixed time; note colour, height and direction.
- Best for
- FlameCandleFireOmens
- Keywords
- FlameCandleFireOmens
- Origin
- Classical antiquity
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