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Xois
September 21st, 2001, 02:31 PM
What other types of strange divination methods do we know

How about chicken gizzards:)
Silver Venus
September 24th, 2001, 05:35 AM
Know nothing of Chicken Gizzards!
But got this strange article on casting bones!
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma/bones.html
Ick!
Spirahl
September 24th, 2001, 01:28 PM
I have a past life rememberance of throwing bones...really!
Will check out the link, thanks!
As you can imagine, I'm rather curious about it.
Lavender
September 24th, 2001, 04:16 PM
I remember my grandfather telling me stories about fortune tellers in China that uses chicken guts. Usually, for a big event, like a wedding or a birth, families would hire a fortune teller. They would kill a chicken & the fortunes would be divined from the guts. The carcass would then be cut up & cooked & placed on an alter for the Gods. He had remember being at one when he was very young.

I've also read about a similar process in a fiction book about a celtic tribe. I don't know how much of it was true & what was fiction. The author may have taken literary license with the story.
Rick
September 24th, 2001, 06:08 PM
RE: tossing bones... have read many historical accounts... seems human finger bnes are preferred...

RE: reading chicken innards... EEEEEE-YEWWWWWW!
Lavender
September 27th, 2001, 08:37 PM
Yeah, same for your finger bones too! Ick!! :sick:

Where would you get the finger bones? It's not something you can just pick up at your local occult store. How many would you need? NOT that I'm thinking of it.... :p
Spirahl
September 28th, 2001, 01:27 PM
Umm...cemetary in New Orleans? *ick*
Rick
September 29th, 2001, 11:04 AM
Originally posted by Wildchild
Yeah, same for your finger bones too! Ick!! :sick:

Where would you get the finger bones? It's not something you can just pick up at your local occult store. How many would you need? NOT that I'm thinking of it.... :p

People in the "olden days" didn't have the same hang-ups we have about "used" body parts. There's still an active black market in the alledged bones of saints, skulls of folks like Geronimo, etc.

If you wanted finger bones, you'd just take them from the last batch of captives...
Silver Venus
October 1st, 2001, 06:16 AM
Yeah, Ive accidently seen a skull once round a friends house that Im too sacred even to ask of he uses it for magick! Im not sure but it looked pretty human too...
:eek:
& coincedently Im reading Anne Rice's Merrick at the mo where she uses bones to call on the dead.

Spooky stuff that I wouldnt touch in a thousand years :sick: