Sortilege

Cleromancy, sortilege, casting lots or casting bones is a form of divination in which an outcome is determined by random means, such as the rolling of a die.

You don't need to have any psychic abilities to read most oracles. Even the complicated predictive arts of palmistry, astrology and tarot can be learnt by anyone prepared to read and study the subjects in detail. Of course it helps to have a prophetic gift but it's not essential.

In the Victorian times a popular method of fortune telling, that required no psychic abilities, was Sortilege which divined the future by the drawing of lots. The Sortilege tradition of aleuromancy survives today in the "fortune cookies" available in some Chinese restaurants. Other Sortilege systems involved casting bones (Astragalmancy), drawing marked arrows from a bag (Belomancy), and divination with coloured pebbles (Pessomancy)

The easiest form of Sortilege uses a printed table to give an answer to a question about the future. In addition to the random element of casting lots these magic tables draw upon the magic significance of numbers.

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