libanomancy

English

Etymology

From Greek libanos, frankincense.

Noun

libanomancy (uncountable) (also libranomancy, livanomancy, and knissomancy)

  1. Divination by interpreting burning incense smoke

Quotations
  • Weyer De praestigiis daemonum xii.: libanomanteia, 1583
  • "By Libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little Frankincense." -- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. 133, Urquhart translating Rabelais, 1660.
  • "Livanomancy, by burning of frankincense." -- Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Robbins, 1959

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