Definitions For Botanomancy

Noun

BOTANOMANCY (uncountable) divination, divination by plants. A form of pyromancy in which tree branches and/or leaf, leaves are burnt. Tea-leaf reading, or tasseomancy.

Quotations

"Diuination generally was done by diuers means...or by Hearbes, Botinomancy, the witches magicke." -- Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God, 1610 "By Botomancy, for the nonce I have a few Leaves in reserve." -- Urquhart translating Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv., 1660 "A method of divination by means of burning the branches of vervein and briar, upon which were carved the questions of the practitioner." -- L. Spence Encyc. Occult, 1920

Alternative forms

batanomancy botinomancy botomancy botonomancy

Etymology

From botany + mancy.

Related terms

daphnomancy dendromancy pyromancy