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| + | '''Divination''' is the process of finding answers to questions about future events or about hidden things. Scrying, dowsing, phrenology, [[ouija board]], tea leaves and entrails are all well known forms or [[tool]]s of divination. |
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| | + | In [[Dante's Inferno]], divination is the main form of [[sorcery]] punished in the eighth circle of [[Hell]]. In a good example of ''contrapasso'', the sinners there are punished by having their heads twisted backwards, since they tried to see too far forward while alive. |
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| | + | ==References== |
| | + | * http://www.paralumun.com/divination.htm |
| | + | * http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/d/divination.html |
| | + | [[Category:Magic]] |