belomancy

== English == === Alternative forms === bellomancy bolomancy === Etymology === From Ancient Greek βέλος (bélos, “an arrow, dart”) +‎ -mancy. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛl.əʊ.mæn.si/ === Noun === belomancy (uncountable) Studying the flight of arrows, an ancient form of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs. === See also === rhabdomancy === References === "For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with his arrows..." -- Ezekiel 21:21, Bible "Of this kinde of Rhabdomancy was that practised by Nabuchadonosor in the Chaldean miscellany, delivered by Ezekiel. A like way of Belomancy or Divination by Arrowes hath been in request with Scythians, Alanes, Germans, with the Africans and Turks of Algiers." -- Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne 1646