Usually means: Divination using shadows or ghosts.
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  1. sciomancy: Merriam-Webster
  2. sciomancy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sciomancy: Wordnik
  4. sciomancy: Wiktionary
  5. sciomancy: Dictionary.com
  6. sciomancy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  7. Sciomancy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Sciomancy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. sciomancy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. sciomancy: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  11. Sciomancy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. sciomancy: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sciomancy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. sciomancy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sciomancy: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sciomancy)

▸ noun:  divination using shadows
▸ noun:  divination using ghosts or spirits

Similar:
umbramancy, lunomancy, photomancy, onychomancy, pedomancy, catoptromancy, psychomancy, chaomancy, selenomancy, ichnomancy, more...

Opposite:
photomancy, luxomancy, heliomancy

Types:
shadow reading, umbromancy, sciagraphy, shadow divination, shadow gazing, shadow scrying, more...
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Similar:
umbramancy, lunomancy, photomancy, onychomancy, pedomancy, catoptromancy, psychomancy, chaomancy, selenomancy, ichnomancy, more...

Opposite:
photomancy, luxomancy, heliomancy

Types:
shadow reading, umbromancy, sciagraphy, shadow divination, shadow gazing, shadow scrying, more...



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