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divination by interpreting shapes formed when molten metal, typically lead or tin, is dropped into water..
1727, Bailey, The Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. MOLUBDOMANCY [molybdomanteia of molybdos Lead, and manteia Divination, Gr.] a divining, an observing the motions, Figures, &c. of melted Lead.
1931, de Givry, Lock tr., Picture Museum of Sorcery Molybdomancy was divination by melted lead; drops of it were allowed to fall into water, and the resulting noises and hissings listened to.
The place of molybdomancy is also to be located in the uncertain border area between spontaneous and solicited projection.
There was a happy group in Tallahassee swapping wives on the basis of molybdomancy.
Dropping hot lead or tin into water was another method occasionally employed by the Etruscans in a version of molybdomancy, much like ceromancy.
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Molybdomancy means divination by interpreting shapes formed when molten metal, typically lead or tin, is dropped into water..
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1727, Bailey, The Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. MOLUBDOMANCY [molybdomanteia of molybdos Lead, and manteia Divination, Gr.] a divining, an observing the motions, Figures, &c. of melted Lead.
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