botanomancy

Alternative forms

 * batanomancy
 * botinomancy
 * botomancy
 * botonomancy

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Divination by plants. A form of pyromancy in which tree branches and/or leaves are burnt.
 * 2) 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

Related terms

 * daphnomancy
 * dendromancy
 * pyromancy