libanomancy

Etymology
From Greek libanos, frankincense.

Noun
(also libranomancy, livanomancy, and knissomancy)


 * 1) Divination by interpreting burning incense smoke

Quotations

 * Weyer De praestigiis daemonum xii.: libanomanteia, 1583
 * "By Libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little Frankincense." -- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. 133, Urquhart translating Rabelais, 1660.
 * "Livanomancy, by burning of frankincense." -- Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Robbins, 1959

Translations

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