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magic 10 words

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  1. rhabdomancy
    searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
  2. hydromancy
    divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
  3. geomancy
    divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another)
  4. lithomancy
    divination by means of stones or stone talismans
  5. oneiromancy
    divination through the interpretation of dreams
  6. pyromancy
    divination by fire or flames
  7. onomancy
    divination by the letters of a name
  8. chiromancy
    telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
  9. chiromance
    divine by reading someone's palms
  10. Nemean lion
    (Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors