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Various hasab, a short treatises of divination and magical prayers and recipes against devils
Anonymous
Books
Magic and divination in the Middle Ages : texts and techniques in the Islamic and Christian worlds / Charles Burnett.
Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.)Date: 1996
Books
Mesopotamian astrology : an introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian celestial divination / by Ulla Koch-Westenholz.
Koch, Ulla Susanne.Date: 1995
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A supernatural war : magic, divination, and faith during the First World War / Owen Davies.
Davies, Owen, 1969-Date: 2018
Archives and manuscripts
Online
A collection of invocations, talismans, tables and Qur'anic verses to be used for divination.
Anonymous
Archives and manuscripts
Gorak-gorahan ni manuk sitoho-toho, divination from signs in the inside of a fowl.
Gorak-gorahan, etc. Southern form of ta.
Pictures
Online
Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
Reference: 33977i
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Cosmologie et divination dans la Chine ancienne : le Compendium des cinq agents (Wuxing dai, VIe siècle) / [Xiao Ji] ; traduit et annoté par Marc Kalinowski.
Xiao, Ji, -614.Date: 1991
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La divination chez les Aztlantes : tradución y comentariós des 'Codice borbonicó / par Léonard André-Bonnet.
André-Bonnet, J. L. (Jules Léonard)Date: [1950?]
Archives and manuscripts
Porhalaan, divination-calendar, and the text of an incantation over a medicine, tabas ni taoar, against poison
Books
The sex lives of saints : an erotics of ancient hagiography / Virginia Burrus.
Burrus, VirginiaDate: [2004]
Books
Le bâton de l'aveugle : divination, maladie et pouvoir chez les Moundang du Tchad / Alfred Adler, Andras Zempléni.
Adler, Alfred, 1934-Date: [1972]
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Entre science et nigromance : astrologie, divination et magie dans l'occident médiéval, XIIe-XVe siècle / Jean-Patrice Boudet.
Boudet, Jean-Patrice.Date: 2006
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Islamische magische Schalen und Teller aus Metall : Medizinschalen und Wahrsagerteller sowie Liebeschalen und -teller = Islamic magic medicinal bowls : divination bowls / Ernst Langer.
Langer, Ernst.Date: 2013
Books
Thorns in the flesh : illness and sanctity in late ancient Christianity / Andrew Crislip.
Crislip, Andrew T. (Andrew Todd)Date: [2013]
Books
Magic and divination at the courts of Burgundy and France : text and context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411) / by Jan R. Veenstra.
Veenstra, Jan R., 1939-Date: 1998
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The politics of divination : a processual view of reactions to illness and deviance among the Sisala of northern Ghana / Eugene L. Mendonsa.
Mendonsa, Eugene L.Date: [1982], ©1982
Books
Online
Magic, divination, and demonology among the Hebrews and their neighbours : including an examination of biblical references and of the biblical terms / by T. Witton Davies.
Davies, T. Witton (Thomas Witton), 1851-1923.Date: [1898]
Books
Love is.... Divine : price list / Divine.
Divine (Firm, Earls Barton, England)Date: [2002?]
Books
Love is.... Divine / Divine.
Divine (Firm, Earls Barton, England)Date: [2002?]
Books
Love is.... Divine : latest additions / Divine.
Divine (Firm, Earls Barton, England)Date: [2002?]
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Online
Histoire et traité des sciences occultes, ou, Examen des croyances populaires sur les êtres surnaturels, la magie, la sorcellerie, la divination, etc. depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours / par le Comte de Résie.
Résie, comte de.Date: 1857
Books
Online
Judicial astrologers totally routed, and their pretence to Scripture, reason and experience ... answered. Or a brief discourse, wherein is clearly manifested, that divination by the stars hath no solid foundation ... / Published by J[ohn] A[llan] for publick good.
Allen, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1659
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The philosophy of natural magic : a complete work on natural magic, white magic, black magic, divination, occult binding, sorceries, and their power. Unctions, love medicines and their virtues .... / Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim ; new forward [sic] to 1974 edited by Leslie Shepard.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.Date: [1974]
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Scatalogic rites of all nations : a dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe / based upon original notes and personal observation, and upon compilation from one thousand authorities, by John G. Bourke.
Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896.Date: 1891

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Various hasab, a short treatises of divination and magical prayers and recipes against devils

Magic and divination in the Middle Ages : texts and techniques in the Islamic and Christian worlds / Charles Burnett.

Mesopotamian astrology : an introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian celestial divination / by Ulla Koch-Westenholz.

A supernatural war : magic, divination, and faith during the First World War / Owen Davies.

A collection of invocations, talismans, tables and Qur'anic verses to be used for divination.

Gorak-gorahan ni manuk sitoho-toho, divination from signs in the inside of a fowl.

Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.

Cosmologie et divination dans la Chine ancienne : le Compendium des cinq agents (Wuxing dai, VIe siècle) / [Xiao Ji] ; traduit et annoté par Marc Kalinowski.

La divination chez les Aztlantes : tradución y comentariós des 'Codice borbonicó / par Léonard André-Bonnet.

Porhalaan, divination-calendar, and the text of an incantation over a medicine, tabas ni taoar, against poison

The sex lives of saints : an erotics of ancient hagiography / Virginia Burrus.

Le bâton de l'aveugle : divination, maladie et pouvoir chez les Moundang du Tchad / Alfred Adler, Andras Zempléni.

Entre science et nigromance : astrologie, divination et magie dans l'occident médiéval, XIIe-XVe siècle / Jean-Patrice Boudet.

Islamische magische Schalen und Teller aus Metall : Medizinschalen und Wahrsagerteller sowie Liebeschalen und -teller = Islamic magic medicinal bowls : divination bowls / Ernst Langer.

Thorns in the flesh : illness and sanctity in late ancient Christianity / Andrew Crislip.

Magic and divination at the courts of Burgundy and France : text and context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411) / by Jan R. Veenstra.

The politics of divination : a processual view of reactions to illness and deviance among the Sisala of northern Ghana / Eugene L. Mendonsa.

Magic, divination, and demonology among the Hebrews and their neighbours : including an examination of biblical references and of the biblical terms / by T. Witton Davies.

Love is.... Divine : price list / Divine.

Love is.... Divine / Divine.

Love is.... Divine : latest additions / Divine.

Histoire et traité des sciences occultes, ou, Examen des croyances populaires sur les êtres surnaturels, la magie, la sorcellerie, la divination, etc. depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours / par le Comte de Résie.

Judicial astrologers totally routed, and their pretence to Scripture, reason and experience ... answered. Or a brief discourse, wherein is clearly manifested, that divination by the stars hath no solid foundation ... / Published by J[ohn] A[llan] for publick good.

The philosophy of natural magic : a complete work on natural magic, white magic, black magic, divination, occult binding, sorceries, and their power. Unctions, love medicines and their virtues .... / Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim ; new forward [sic] to 1974 edited by Leslie Shepard.