Catoptromancy
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Catoptromancy also known as captromancy or enoptromancy, is divination
Divination
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic standardized process or ritual...

 using a mirror.

Pausanias
Pausanias (geographer)
Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical...

, an ancient Greek traveler, described as follows:
In Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

, the priests who used catoptromancy were called speculari.

External links

  • http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/c/captromancy_or_enoptromancy.html
  • http://www.agnosticwitch.catcara.com/divindex-part1.htm
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