Bibliomancy

thumb|upright=1.3|Panurge and Pantagruel use a book of Virgil's poems for bibliomancy, in [[The Third Book of Pantagruel]] Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. The use of sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for "magical medicine", for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world.

way of consulting the pages of Virgil to ascertain one's fortune, by opening the book at random, putting the finger on a passage and taking that for the oracle of fate one is in quest of