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  • Folio 31 recto, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
  • [Wellcome MS. Batak 331834].
  • Br̥hatsāmudrikaśāstra / strīpuruṣalakṣaṇa,Paṇḍitanārāyaṇaprasādamiśrakr̥tabhāṣāṭīkāsahita.
  • Divinatory effigy used by the Yarsi for prognosis of disease.
  • Folio 41r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Duncan Campbell, a deaf and dumb soothsayer. Line engraving.
  • A man in Madagascar predicting the future with seeds (sikidy). Process print, ca. 1930, after G. Grandidier.
  • Folio 30v-31r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Bloodletting chart, Tibet
  • Folio 40v, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Folio 30v, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • A torture victim; and divination techniques. Engraving.
  • A young woman seeks confirmation of her companion's love from the petals of a flower. Engraving by Carl Meyer after Adolf Theer.
  • Folio 40v-41r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • The Eight Techniques of the Spirit Tortoise, woodcut
  • Mexico: a sheet of an Aztec document showing a serpent with other divinatory figures. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.
  • Illustration of a complete set of divining bones.