Last year I looked at people’s fascination with the future and to that end, I provided a list of methods to “tell the future”. Here are some more wacky ways I have since discovered:

• Cleromancy - Predicting the future based on randomness by casting dice or dominoes.
• Geomancy - A method of divination that interprets markings on the ground, or how handfuls of dirt land when someone tosses them. One tradition consists of sketching sixteen random lines of dots in sand.
• Haruspicy - divination by the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, leading to:
• Hepatoscopy - divination based on the livers of sacrificed sheep
• Pyromancy - Here the diviner observes flames, from a sacrificial fire, a candle, or another source of flame, and interprets the shapes that he or she sees within them. Deriviatives include:
• Alomancy - divination by salt, one type of which involves casting salt into a fire
• Botanomancy - divination by burning plants
• Capnomancy - divination by smoke
• Causinomancy - divination by burning (non-specific as to the object burned)
• Daphnomancy (also, Empyromancy) - divination by burning laurel leaves
• Osteomancy - divination using bones, one type of which involves heating to produce cracks
• Plastromancy -  divination using turtle shells; in China, this was done by heating pits carved into them
• Scapulimancy - divination by scapulae (shoulder blades of animals); in Asia and North America, this was done pyromantically
• Sideromancy - divination by burning straw

It’s a strange world, though of course many of these are coming from ancient times. I wonder if anyone still tries to use these methods.