"Sciomancy" Quotes from Famous Books
... less than, at the invocation of Erictho, a certain defunct person foretold to Pompey the whole progress and issue of the fatal battle fought in the Pharsalian fields. Or, if you be afraid of the dead, as commonly all cuckolds are, I will make use of the faculty of sciomancy. ... — Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais |