Meaning: Cotgrave: divination by water in a basin. Often involves adding something to the water and observing the patterns: oil, tiles, etc.
Usefulness: 3 (I might have been fascinated 31 -mancys ago, but things are at the point where even my mother is over the -mancys. There is one more, but it's pretty boring so I'll be doing the most interesting of the other -mancys out there and then stopping. These have all been from the one chapter of the third book of Gargantua and Pantagruel, for those of you who missed the start.)
Logofascination: 2 (Divination by dish: pretty straightforward, but highlights the lack of other descendants from the λεκάνη root.)
In the wild: No, but I'm rather fond of the intro to the Wikipedia article: "a form of divination which, like many ancient forms of divination, has multiple interpretations". I wonder sometimes if this is because only three people ever practiced them. )
Degrees: 1
Connections: n/a
Which is used in: G&P, Book the Third, XXV: "In which Panurge consulteth Herr Trippa" and I become an expert on forms of divination.
Usefulness: 3 (I might have been fascinated 31 -mancys ago, but things are at the point where even my mother is over the -mancys. There is one more, but it's pretty boring so I'll be doing the most interesting of the other -mancys out there and then stopping. These have all been from the one chapter of the third book of Gargantua and Pantagruel, for those of you who missed the start.)
Logofascination: 2 (Divination by dish: pretty straightforward, but highlights the lack of other descendants from the λεκάνη root.)
In the wild: No, but I'm rather fond of the intro to the Wikipedia article: "a form of divination which, like many ancient forms of divination, has multiple interpretations". I wonder sometimes if this is because only three people ever practiced them. )
Degrees: 1
Connections: n/a
Which is used in: G&P, Book the Third, XXV: "In which Panurge consulteth Herr Trippa" and I become an expert on forms of divination.
by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Hermolaus Barbarus.Lecanomancy is of course a subset of hydromancy.
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