Onomancy
Encyclopedia
Onomancy is divination
based on a subject's given name
, popular in the Late Middle Ages
, usually following practices of Gematria
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Divination
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic standardized process or ritual...
based on a subject's given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, popular in the Late Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages was the period of European history generally comprising the 14th to the 16th century . The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern era ....
, usually following practices of Gematria
Gematria
Gematria or gimatria is a system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase, in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other, or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to a person's age, the calendar year, or the like...
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