History Main / Whatevermancy

* '''Plastromancy:''' Divination from the undershell (plastron) of a turtle, inscribed and burned. Unique to the far east.

* '''Haruspication, Hieromancy and Hieroscopy:''' An ancient art of investigating the entrails of sacrificial animals in order to see what the future holds.
** '''Hepatomancy:''' The subdiscipline specifically involving divination by means of reading an animal's liver.

* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' gives us Infernomancers (guys who got their powers from the demons of Hell), in addition to Necromancers. Interestingly, we get a quick peek at the first necromancer (Rilian), while he's trying to come up with a name for it. Other names in the running were "Necromagica," [[IncrediblyLamePun "Ghost in the Spell"]], "Rilianmancy" and "Kill-You-Dead".

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: Labyrinth Town is populated with {{Fortune Teller}}s who have mastered one form of divination or another. Girls from all over Japan travel to Labyrinth Town to learn or create their own divination technique. The [[EnsembleCast main girls]] each learn/create a technique of their own:

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: Labyrinth Town is populated with {{Fortune Teller}}s who have mastered one form of divination or another and girls from all over Japan travel to Labyrinth Town to learn or create their own divination technique. The [[EnsembleCast main girls]] learn/create a technique

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: Labyrinth Town is populated with FortuneTeller/{{Fortune Teller}}s who have mastered one form of divination or another and girls from all over Japan travel to Labyrinth Town to learn or create their own divination technique. The [[EnsembleCast main girls]] learn/create a technique

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: Labyrinth Town is populated with FortuneTeller/{{FortuneTeller}}s who have mastered one form of divination or another and girls from all over Japan travel to Labyrinth Town to learn or create their own divination technique. The [[EnsembleCast main girls]] learn/create a technique

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: Labyrinth Town is populated with Fortune Teller/{FortuneTeller}s who have mastered one form of divination or another and girls from all over Japan travel to Labyrinth Town to learn or create their own divination technique. The [[EnsembleCast main girls]] learn/create a technique

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: Labyrinth Town is populated with FortuneTeller/{Fortune Teller}s who have mastered one form of divination or another and girls from all over Japan travel to Labyrinth Town to learn or create their own divination technique. The [[EnsembleCast main girls]] learn/create a technique

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: Labyrinth Town is populated with {FortuneTeller}s who have mastered one form of divination or another and girls from all over Japan travel to Labyrinth Town to learn or create their own divination technique. The [[EnsembleCast main girls]] learn/create a technique

** Nono uses Doll Divination, a form of ventriloquism. She asks the doll, [[CreepyDoll Matsuko]] she was given by her [[MissingMom deceased mother]] for help.

* In ''Manga/ACertainMagicalIndex'' universe the espers with fire manipulation ability are called '''pyrokinesists'''.

* In ''Everyone Wants to Live'', a play by Israeli playwright Khanokh Levin, Pozna, the protagonist, who has been informed by the a sub-reaper for the GrimReaper and later by the Reaper himself that he is to die in three days lest he find a replacement, hosts a party after a few failed attempts to find one, and asks divinators to tell him he will live longer. First he asks an expert of palmistry to give his opinion, but he says the ‘life line’ ends abruptly, but it’s possible his hand has just not enough for it; Pozna reacts by chasing him off--‘you’re gonna see if the hand’s enough or not!’ He looks for another divinator, saying he doesn’t care what he reads--hands, eyes, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick anuses]]--as long as he’s willing to tell him he’ll live longer. The divinator tells him to smile, because he reads ''teeth'', and tells him what he wants to hear, but then the sub-reaper appears and asks the divinator to read his own teeth; when the divinator says he’ll live longer, the sub-reaper strangles him to death and reminds Pozna that [[YouCannotFightFate his fate is sealed]].

* '''Cyclomancy:''' Spinning a wheel, a top or a bottle. The prophetic answer lays in the direction the item points or spins towards.

* '''Dendromancy:''' Druid divination with branches of oak or mistletoe set on fire. The prediction then made from seeing the direction and shapes of the ensuing smoke.

* '''Gastromancy:''' The seer utters prophetic words in a lowed tone coming from deep breaths from the belly whilst in a trance state. Sometimes considered to be Ventriloquism. Gastromancy is often misquoted as a form of crystal gazing whereby glass goblets of clear water placed in front of lighted candles where gazed upon.

* '''Genethlialogy:''' Astrologically forecasting the destiny of a new born child.
* '''Geomancy 1:''' Determing the future from various forms created by tapping sand or dirt. Since the Middle Ages it is commonly done with paper and pen.

* '''Lecanomancy:''' Divination where a stone is thrown into a basin of water. A reader will give prophesies from the sound the stone makes in the water and the images of the rippling water. Sometimes oil is used instead of a rock and the shapes of the oil floating on the water are focused on.

* '''Metoposcopy:''' Predicting personality, character, and destiny, by reading patterns and lines on a subject's forehead combined associations to astrology.

* '''Molybdomancy:''' Omens were sought by interpreting the noises and hisses of molten lead when dropped into a cauldron of water. Alternatively the shapes formed by the molten metal solidifying in the water were observed. Also the directions that spilled liquid metal would flow when poured onto a flat surface could be prophesized upon.

* '''Onomancy, Onomantics:''' Divination by the study of letter in a person’s name. Similarities with Numerology

* '''Phyllorhodomancy:''' When clapping the palms with a rose leaf in hand a prophecy was made from the different type of sound produced by the clap.

* '''Sortilege:''' Medieval term for sorcery or one who divines. Sortilege has also has been associated with casting bones or drawing lots for divination.

* '''Bibliomancy:''' Interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book and offering up a prophecy from so doing. Prophesies in this form were predominantly taken from Literature/TheBible in earlier times.

* '''Capnomancy:''' Interpreting the flow and shapes in the smoke of a fire to from a prophecy.

* '''[[TarotMotifs Cartomancy]]:''' Cartomancy is using a deck of cards in divination - the Tarot is the most popular deck to use, developed from the card game of the same name sometime in the late 19th Century. Other specialized decks used for divination and inspiration are known as oracle cards - Dream Cards, Chakra Cards, Animal Cards, Astrology Cards, You name it, there is most likely a deck of oracle cards about it.
* '''Catoptromancy:''' Fortune telling with the aid of mirrors. A Captromancer’s mirror was know as a ‘Magic Glass’ Gazing into a mirror is similar to crystal gazing.

* '''Ceromancy:''' also known as ceroscopy or candle reading. Either melting wax dropped into water and the shapes of hardened then interpreted into prophecy. Or simply meditating and gazing at a burning candle flame. The shapes formed in wax from a candle’s run off can also be read for divinatory meaning.
* '''Chiromancy, Cheirology and Chirognomy''' are all terms for Palm Reading or Palmistry which is divination from the lines on people's hands. Chirognomy is more specifically a focus on the general hand formations being size, shape and appearance of the hand.

* '''Astrology:''' Using the positions of the planets in the signs of the zodiac at your time of birth to prophesize future events and character traits. An astrologer must have your exact date (including time) and location of birth or conception to be accurate. See WesternZodiac

* '''Austromancy:''' Deriving meaning from watching the winds especially during thunder and lightning. “The winds of change”.

* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' and ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' call an [[ElementalPowers Elementalist]], who specializes in one specific [[FourElementEnsemble Element]] a [[PlayingWithFire Pyromancer]], [[BlowYouAway Aeromancer]], [[DishingOutDirt Geomancer]] or [[MakingASplash Aquamancer]]. Furthermore the players call an Elementalist, who specializes in casting lots of auras (lots of positive effects at once) an auramancer.

* '''Nigromancy''': Actually a medieval misspelling of "{{Necromanc|er}}y" from a confusion of ''necro-'' ("[the] dead", Greek) with ''nigro-'' ("black", Latin). Came to be interpreted as "BlackMagic" in general.

** The books have [[FormulaicMagic Arithmancy]], a class Hermione takes. This one is an accurate use of the suffix, though, as arithmancy is divination by numbers.[[note]]In real life it's an alternative, and not much used nowadays, term for numerology.[[/note]] Amusing when you consider that Hermione once stated that she considered divination to be very "woolly"; ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Wizard's Dictionary]]'' suggests that it may be because Arithmancy has much more solid rules than most divinations.

** Though spelled a bit different, there's also the MindReading power Legilimency and the [[PsychicBlockDefense anti-mind reading]] skill Occlumency. (In the Spanish translation, Occlumency was translated as «Oclu''mancia''», playing the trope straight.)

* The ''Technology Guide'' for ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' includes the Technomancer as a prestige class, which grants certain powers over high-tech items by combining expertise in magic and engineering. It also includes the Technomancy spell, which is closer to divination (it helps locate and identify technological items).