bibliomancy
Sign in to savethumb|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.
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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.
==Terminology== According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word bibliomancy (etymologically from and ) "divination by books, or by verses of the Bible" was first recorded in 1753 (''Chambers' Cyclopædia). Sometimes this term is used synonymously with stichomancy'' (from ) "divination by lines of verse in books taken at hazard", which was first recorded (Urquhart's Rabelais).