augury

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The most notable of these vaticinations was "the Augury of the Hogs", Page 324 which he practised by the advice of a certain Jewish magician.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

Augury has its foundation in observing the flight of birds, the sounds they utter, their motions whether sluggish or animated, and the avidity or otherwise with which they appear to take their food.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William

See also Sayce, Babylonian Augury by means of Geometrical Figures, in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. iv. p.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

Augury, or divinations drawn from the flight and feeding of birds.

From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An

Not a whit, we defie Augury; there's a speciall Prouidence in the fall of a sparrow.

From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William