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Spodomancy (also known as tephramancy and tephromancy) is a form of divination by examining cinders, soot, or ashes ((ギリシア語:σποδός ''spodós'')), particularly although not exclusively from a ritual sacrifice.〔Robertson, ''Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements,'' 1991, p. 192; Browne and Harrison, ''The Truth About Psychics: What's Real, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference,'' 2009, p. 80; Maberry and Kramer, ''The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange and Downright Bizarre,'' 2007, p. 95.〕〔Amber K. and Azrael Arynn K., ''Candlemas: Feast of Flames,'' 2001, p. 95.〕 Spodomancy has been practiced by numerous cultures, ancient and modern, across the globe. While many practitioners (particularly in Europe) have performed the ritual as part of a formal system of paranormal, religious, or ceremonial magic, many have done so as part of mere folkloric practice or superstition. ==Similar practices== Spodomancy includes at least two and possibly three other divination practices and rituals involving cinders or ashes. These are: *Cineromancy/Ceneromancy—Divination involving the ashes of a specifically sacrificial or ritual fire. This ritual calls for the removal of any unburned wood or coals, and interpreting the mounds, ridges, valleys, and other imperfections in the surface. Special attention was paid to intersections of these elements, or where they dead-ended.〔Buckland, ''The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying,'' 2004, p. 102.〕 *Libanomancy—Divination by studying the burning of incense, or the patterns made by incense smoke or ash.〔 *Xylomancy—Divination by observing the shape of wood in one's path, or the appearance wood takes while burning.〔Pickover, ''Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction,'' 2001, p. 137.〕 Most sources places xylomancy under pyromancy (divination by observing flame, coals, or embers or by burning ritual items such as coal, laurel leaves, or salt). But one source claims that spodomancy includes xylomancy.〔McCoy, ''Advanced Witchcraft: Go Deeper, Reach Further, Fly Higher,'' 2004, p. 171.〕 Spodomancy is distinguishable from capnomancy, which is divination by observing smoke, and pyromancy (and its many subsidiary rituals), which is divination by observing burning things or coals (but not their ash or cinders). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spodomancy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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