Chiromancy
91Ornithomancy — (Gk. οἰωνίζομαι) is an Ancient Greek practice of reading omens from the actions of birds, equivalent to the Augury employed by the ancient Romans. Although it was mainly the flights and songs of birds that were studied, any action could have been …
92Leonard Wolf — is an author, teacher, and the father of Naomi Wolf. He is known for his authoritative annotated versions of classic gothic horror novels, including Dracula , Frankenstein , The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , and The Phantom of the Opera …
93Catoptromancy — Russian folk catoptromancy by Karl Briullov, 1836 Catoptromancy (Gk. katoptron, mirror, and manteia, divination), also known as captromancy or enoptromancy, is divination using a mirror. Pausanias, an ancient Greek traveler, described as follows …
94Character education — is an umbrella term loosely used to describe the teaching of children in a manner that will help them develop variously as moral, civic, good, mannered, behaved, non bullying, healthy, critical, successful, traditional, compliant and/ or socially …
95Cledonism — In the occult of classical antiquity, cledonism, or cledonomancy, was a kind of divination based on chance events or encounters, such as words occasionally uttered. The word is formed from the Greek κληδὼν which signifies rumor, a report, omen,… …
96Valentine Dencausse — (1871 1954) was probably the most famous chiromancer in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, under the name of Madame Fraya . She would use a person s hand and handwriting to predict his/her future, but she admitted to not… …
97Bartolomeo della Rocca — Bartolomeo della Rocca, called Cocles (March 19, 1467 ndash; September 9, 1504) was a scholar of chiromancy, physiognomy, and astrology who lived in Bologna, Italy during the rule of the Bentivoglio.Alessandro Achillini was a promoter of… …
98List of astrological traditions, types, and systems — This is an incomplete list of the different traditions, types, systems, methods, applications, and branches of astrology.Current traditionsTraditions still practiced in modern times include: *Chinese astrology *Electional astrology *Horary… …
99Bathilde d'Orléans — Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d Orléans, princesse de Condé (Saint Cloud, July 9 1750 Paris, January 10 1822), was a French princess. She was sister of the infamous Philippe Égalité, the mother of the executed duc d Enghien and aunt of King Louis …
100Juan Roa Sierra — (born November 4, 1927 in Bogotá mdash;died April 9, 1948 in Bogotá) was a Colombian known for assassinating Colombian Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on April 9, 1948. After he shot Gaitán three times, mortally… …
