different between ceromancy vs cleromancy

English

Alternative forms

• carromancy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (k?rós, “wax”) +? -mancy.

Noun

ceromancy (uncountable)

1. divination by pouring melted wax into water and interpreting the bubbles formed.
   • 1660, Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv

     By Ceromancy, where, by the means of Wax dissolved into Water, thou shalt see the Figure, Poutrait and lively Representation of thy future Wife, and of her Fredin Fredaliatory Belly-thumping Blades.

   • 1983, Complete Bk Predictions.

     In ceromancy, melted wax is allowed to drip into a shallow dish of cold water, and the resulting shapes are interpreted. Ceromancy was very popular in the eighteenth century, when correspondence was normally fastened with sealing wax.

Synonyms

• ceroscopy

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek kleros, "a lot".

Noun

cleromancy (uncountable)

1. Divination by casting lots (sortilege).
2. Divination by throwing dice or any such marked objects, like beans, pebbles, or bone.

Quotations

• 1652 Gaule The Magastromancer xix.

  Cleromancy, by lotts...

• 1893 Howitt tr. Ennemoser Hist. of Magic ii.

  cleromancy - Is a kind of divination performed by the throwing of dice or little bones; and observing the points or marks turned up. At Bura, a city of Achaia, a celebrated Temple of Hercules, where such as consulted the oracle, after praying to the idol, threw four dice, the points of which being well scanned by the priest, he was supposed to draw an answer from them.

• 1970 Zolar Encyc. of Ancient & Forbidden Knowledge

  CLEROMANCY: A form of lot casting, akin to divination with dice, but simply using pebbles or other odd objects, often of different colors instead of marked cubes.