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bibliomancy
Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. The method of employing sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for 'magical medicine', for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world.
==Terminology==
According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'',〔''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd edition, 1989.〕 the word ''bibliomancy'' (etymologically from βιβλίον ''biblio-'' "books" and μαντεία ''-mancy'' "divination by means of") "divination by books, or by verses of the Bible" was first recorded in 1753 (''Chambers' Cyclopædia''). Sometimes this term is used synonymously with ''stichomancy'' (from στίχος ''sticho-'' "row, line, verse") "divination by lines of verse in books taken at hazard", which was first recorded ca. 1693 (Urquhart's ''Rabelais'').
''Bibliomancy'' compares with ''rhapsodomancy'' (from ''rhapsode'' "poem, song, ode") "divination by reading a random passage from a poem". A historical precedent was the ancient Roman practice of sortes ("sortilege, divination by drawing lots") which specialized into ''sortes Homericae'', ''sortes Virgilianae'', and ''sortes Sanctorum'', using the texts of Homer, Virgil, and the Bible.
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