belomancy

English

Alternative forms
  • bellomancy
  • bolomancy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos, “an arrow, dart”) +‎ -mancy.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛl.əʊ.mæn.si/

Noun

belomancy (uncountable)

  1. Studying the flight of arrows, an ancient form of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs.

See also

References
"For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with his arrows..." -- Ezekiel 21:21, Bible
"Of this kinde of Rhabdomancy was that practised by Nabuchadonosor in the Chaldean miscellany, delivered by Ezekiel. A like way of Belomancy or Divination by Arrowes hath been in request with Scythians, Alanes, Germans, with the Africans and Turks of Algiers." -- Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne 1646
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