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BELOMANCY

Volume 1 · 59 words · 1771 Edition

a sort of divination by means of arrows, practised in the east, and particularly in Arabia.

Belomancy has been performed different ways, whereof one was this: Suppose a parcel of arrows, eleven or more of them being put into a bag; these were afterwards drawn out, and according as they were marked or not, they judged of future events.