{"product_id":"9781851246335","title":"Divination, Oracles \u0026 Omens","description":"Author: Michelle Pfeffer\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781851246335\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bodleian Library Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 192\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe past, present and future are full of tantalising mysteries: questions about our own and other people's lives that we long to answer. Across history, human cultures have devised a wide range of methods to discover what might lie ahead or to understand past events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating book features twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world that have been and are still used to uncover hidden information: from astrology, palmistry, and Tarot to egg divination and Chinese Yijing. Each chapter is beautifully illustrated with a wide range of associated objects, such as cards, dice, altars, candles and texts, and even mathematical tools including astrolabes and astronomical tables. While these practices are often seen as light-hearted entertainment, a soothsayer's uncannily accurate reading can catapult a client from scepticism to serious engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom ancient times to the present day, this spellbinding collection explores our need to appeal to powers beyond the realm of our day-to-day understanding for prediction and clarification, and how the questions we ask can reveal more than the answers we are given.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857124053150,"sku":"ADS-9781851246335","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781851246335.jpg?v=1779155267","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781851246335","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}