Meanings
alternative dactyliomancy · alternative dactalomancy
- uncountableDivination by various methods using rings, such as using silver or gold rings placed on the fingernails in patterns in conjunction with the planets.
Dactylomancy, by rings […]
The Magastromancer xix, Gaule, 16521 more example
Dactyliomancy was divination by means of a ring. The ring was suspended by a thread above a round table, on the edge of which letters of the alphabet were marked. The ring, in shaking or vibrating over the table, stopped over certain of the letters, which, on being connected, supplied the answer asked.
Mysteries of all Nations xiii, J. Grant, 1880
Origin
- Ancient Greekδάκτυλος“finger”
- Englishdactylomancy
From dactylo- + -mancy (“divination”), from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
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