# Something-mancy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-mancy/139747>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-mancy/139747 "2002-12-01T07:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-mancy/139747/1 "2002-12-01T07:01:24Z")

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I was wondering if there is a blanket term for the various divination techniques involving written materials.

So far, I’ve found [Cartomancy](http://skepdic.com/cartoma.html), [Stichomancy](http://skepdic.com/stichoma.html), and [Rune Reading](http://skepdic.com/runes.html).

There are probably others, but is there a blanket term which would cover all of these?

Thanks,  
David

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**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-mancy/139747/2 "2002-12-01T08:51:07Z")

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Bibliomancy perhaps? Though that has more of a connotation of consulting books, such as I Ching.

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**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-mancy/139747/3 "2002-12-01T10:33:03Z")

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Divination?