Part 3

Magic, Magia, Mateia 99

Magic of the Eastern nations,—a brief View of the Origin and Progress of Magic, &c.—

Chaldeans and Persians 101

Indians 109

Egyptians 110

Jews 115

Prediction 123

Fatalism, or Predestination 136

Divination 142

Artificial Divination 142

Natural Divination 142

Axinomancy 143

Alectoromantia 143

Arithmomancy 144

Belomancy 144

Cleromancy 145

Cledonism 145

Coscinomancy 146

Capnomancy 146

Catoptromancy 147

Chiromancy 147

Dactyliomancy 148

Extispicium 148

Gastromancy 149

Geomancy 149

Hydromancy 150

Necromancy 150

Oneirocritica 150