Axinomancy is one of several obscure methods of divination using an axe, hatchet, or (rarely) a saw. Most of the methods involve throwing an axe into the ground, or swinging
it into a tree, and interpreting the direction of the handle or the
quivering of the blade.
Divination by means of a hatchet or a woodcutter’s axe. Diviners predicted the ruin of Jerusalem with axinomancy (Psalm 74). Francois de la Tour-Blanche, who remarked upon this, does not tell us how the diviners made use of the hatchet, but it may have been related to one of the two methods employed in ancient times and lately ...
Divination by means of a hatchet or a woodcutter’s axe. Diviners predicted the ruin of Jerusalem with axinomancy (Psalm 74). Francois de la Tour-Blanche, who remarked upon this, does not tell us how the diviners made use of the hatchet, but it may have been related to one of the two methods employed in ancient times and lately ...
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