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Throwing the Bones; How to Foretell the Future with Bones, Shells and Nuts
2012
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4.28
Average Rating
96
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This practical manual explains and teaches ancient and modern methods for predicting future events by means of Scottish speal bones, American pyromantic furculomancy, Yoruban obi, Shona hakata, Mongolian shagai, British fortune telling dice, the Gypsy domino oracle, the Persian standing bone oracle, Alabama 'Possum bones, Virginia Chicken bones, Zulu-style sangoma bone reading, and more. Slaughter-Bone Oracles Mathematical Systems of Bone Reading Sortilege Systems with Bones Spirit-Led Interpretive Bone Reading

Avg Rating
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Author

Catherine Yronwode
Catherine Yronwode
Author · 8 books

Catherine "Cat" Yronwode (b. 1947) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and teacher. A practitioner of herbalism and traditional magic, she is a founding member of the Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers. She has had an extensive career in the comic book industry, and coauthored Women and the Comics (1985), the first book on women in comics. Born and raised in California, Yronwode attended Illinois' Shimer College in the 1960s, through the school's unique early entrance program.

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