divination theme
The attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual, is featured. This may involve reading entrails, reading stars, using knuckle bones, tarot cards, ouija boards etc.
9 total · 9 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahp3x28 | minor | Mary spoke of how a friend determined the gender of her unborn child by dangling a ring on a string over her belly. |
| ahp3x37 | minor | A man was talking about an Ouija board and we saw one being used. |
| ahp6x29 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock feigned use a dowsing rod to seek the Fountain of Youth, and claimed to have found nothing but oil instead. |
| ahp7x39 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock spoke of how the Romans divined the future by examining animal entrails, before using the comparatively tidy expedient of goat X-rays to make some of his own divinations. |
| ic1976e02 | minor | Domitius recounted how he'd read Lucius' auspices form an ewe liver. |
| movie: Fellini Satyricon (1969) | minor | A diviner read the future in an animal's entrails. |
| movie: Natural City (2003) | minor | Gongbang interpreted the signs on two sticks to mean that there would be an "unavoidable bond" in Cyon's future. Cyon went on to form just such a bond with R. |
| play: Phormio (161 BC) | minor | Geta mentioned both a person who was a soothsayer, and another person who was a diviner (see p. 261). |
| rbt1985e1x05 | minor | An intimidating Yokel persuaded Brdbury to try out a dowsing stick in order to come up with his next story. [dowsing] |