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Pyromancy (from either Greek 'pyros', fire, and 'manteia', divination) is the art of divination by means of fire.

History of Pyromancy
Due to a importance of fire within society from either a earliest of days, these are quite belike that pyromancy was one of the earliest forms of divination. These are said that inside Greek society, virgins at the Temple of Athena in Athens regularly practiced pyromancy. These are as well conceivable that followers of Hephaestus, a Greek god of fire & the forge, good pyromancy.

Types of Pyromancy
a virtually all basic form of pyromancy is that where the diviner observes fire, from either a sacrificial fire, a candle, or even even an additional source of flaming, & interprets the shapes that he or she understands inside the babies. There are many variations in pyromancy, notwithstanding, a bit of of which are then when follows: Alomancy, divination by salt, one nature and severity of which involves casting salt into the fire Botanomancy, divination by burning plants Capnomancy, divination by smoke Daphnomancy (too, Empyromancy), divination by burning laurel leaves Causinomancy, divination by burning (non-specific when to the object burnt) Sideromancy, divination by burning straw

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