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Kledonomancy.
Reading chance words, overheard phrases or incidental speech as symbolic prompts.
LEXICON / LANGUAGE & MEANING
Names in context.
- Kledonomancy
- Cledonomancia
Divinatory interpretation of an incidental utterance or overheard words.
- Cledonomancy
- Cledonomancia
An alternative English spelling of kledonomancy.
PROVENANCE & INTERPRETATIONA practice,
A practice,
a setting.
Pausanias describes an oracle of Hermes at Pharae involving the first words heard after a ritual inquiry. That account is one named historical setting rather than a rule for all incidental speech.
FIELD NOTE / METHOD
Keep a record.
- Write the question and the selection rule beforehand.
- Record the exact phrase and immediate setting without searching for a more convenient one.
- Keep a literal transcription alongside the symbolic reading.
POTPOURRI / PHOTO GUIDE
What to include.
- Submit a dated transcription with the context summarized.
- Exclude private conversations and identify quotations only when permission or publication allows it.
POTPOURRI / PERSONAL INTERPRETATION
Photo instructions & submission ↗Share a photograph or a record.
A photograph, drawing or dated record can be sent privately for a personal reading. Include the procedure and the question.