libanomancy

English

Etymology

From Greek libanos, frankincense.

Noun

libanomancy (uncountable) (also libranomancy, livanomancy, and knissomancy)

1. Divination by interpreting burning incense smoke

Quotations

• Weyer De praestigiis daemonum xii.: libanomanteia, 1583
• "By Libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little Frankincense." -- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. 133, Urquhart translating Rabelais, 1660.
• "Livanomancy, by burning of frankincense." -- Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Robbins, 1959

Hypernyms

• capnomancy

Translations

Translations

• Italian: libanomanzia (it)