Coscinomancy Alternatively known as Coskiomancy. The art and practice of divining the past, the present and the future by means of a hanging sieve.
Coscinomancy is a form of divination that is practiced with a sieve, and a pair of tongs or shears, which are supported upon the thumb nails of two persons looking upon one another, or the nails of the middle finger may be used.
COSCINOMANCY is divination using a hanging sieve. see RADIESTHESIA. CRITOMANCY is the study of barley cakes. CROMNIOMANCY is divination using onion sprouts.
See also: Divination, Signs, Mystic, Angel, The Tarot
 
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