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Look up: pyromancy

  1. pyromancy
    [n] - divination by fire or flames
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Pyromancy
    Pyr'o·man`cy noun [ Greek ...; ... fire + ... divination: confer French pyromancie .] Divination by means of fire.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/204

  3. pyromancy
    Divination by means of fire. ... Origin: Gr.; fire + divination: cf. F. Pyromancie. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. pyromancy
    noun divination by fire or flames
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Pyromancy
    • (n.) Divination by means of fire.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. pyromancy
    (from the article `augury`) ...each with its own specialist jargon and ritual, were atmospheric phenomena (aeromancy), cards (cartomancy), dice or lots (cleromancy), dots and ... Pyromancy (divination by fire) may be highly dramatic in a society dependent on fire for light and safety at night. In some trans-Saharan societies ... [2 r...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/138

  7. pyromancy
    pyromancy Divination with fire or flames; a good omen resulted when the flames were vigorous and quickly consumed the sacrifice and when the smoke was transparent, neither red nor dark in color, when it didn`t crackle, but burnt silently in a pyramidal form; but a bad omen when it was difficult to k...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  8. Pyromancy
    `Pyromancy` (from Greek pyros, “fire,” and manteia, “divination”) is the art of divination by means of fire. History of pyromancy: Due to the importance of fire in society from the earliest of times, it is quite likely that pyromancy was one of the earlier forms...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromancy

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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