Belomancy
== Webster's Dictionary ==
(n.) A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ==
bel´ō̇ -man -si . See Augury , IV, 2.
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==
(See Divination).
in Greek religion, was a certain way of fortune-telling, by means of sacred inscribed arrows. They were either mixed together and then one drawn as a lot, or one was thrown into the air and the fortune told by the direction it took. (See Divination).
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