pyromancy

That didn't mean we didn't have abilities, but they certainly didn't include physical pyromancy.

There are several variations on pyromancy, however, some of which are as follows:

On the breast of his shirt was embroidered in gold and red threads the ancient Pyromancy oriflamme.

Pyromancy: by gazing into fire.

For a number of years Douglas's education proceeded as he learned the rudiments of wizardry in general and pyromancy in particular.

It is also possible that followers of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and the forge, practiced pyromancy.

After the founding of Zhou, the Shang practices of bronze casting, pyromancy and writing continued.

In fiction, "pyromancy" is often a malapropism for pyrokinesis, which is usually used for combat, not divination.

One form of Alomancy consists of the casting of salt into a fire, which is considered a type of Pyromancy.

The division between the four "elemental" disciplines (viz., geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy) is somewhat contrived.

Due to the importance of fire in society from the earliest of times, it is quite likely that pyromancy was one of the earlier forms of divination.

It is said that in Greek society, virgins at the Temple of Athena in Athens regularly practiced pyromancy.

He teaches Philosophy, Astronomy (Astrology to some authors), Rhetoric, Logic, Chiromancy and Pyromancy.

Most sources places xylomancy under pyromancy (divination by observing flame, coals, or embers or by burning ritual items such as coal, laurel leaves, or salt).

In the anime and manga Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars practices pyromancy by searching for visions in a roaring fire.

In Renaissance magic, geomancy was classified as one of the seven "forbidden arts," along with necromancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, chiromancy (palmistry), and spatulamancy (scapulimancy).

When Von Hunter arrived to do battle with the Prince, Ariana was supposed to destroy him with her powerful pyromancy, the Mega-Destruction Flare.

He hunkered down with his hands clasped against his lips and waited, waited, because what she was doing was not the magic he knew in her, pyromancy and necromancy.

Since divination (-mancy) was by heat or fire (pyro-) and most often on plastrons or scapulae, the terms pyromancy, plastromancy and scapulimancy are often used for this process.

The most basic form of pyromancy is that in which 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.

There are hundreds of others; from pyromancy, oneiromancy, auguries from sacrifices, and the spinning-top of some ancient oracles to the omens drawn from the flight of birds and the prophesying of tea-leaves.

Computer games such as Guild Wars, Heroes of Might and Magic, Titan Quest, Wizard101, Dark Souls, and World of Warcraft use pyromancy as a name for fire-related magic.

It is thought that other methods of divination supplanted pyromancy, such as numerological divination using milfoil (yarrow) in connection with the hexagrams of the I Ching, leading to the decline in inscribed oracle bones.

Here a Sacristan once taught magic, judicial astrology, geomancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, acromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, &c. The extract goes on to state that seven students engaged at a time with the Sacristan, at a fixed stipend.

Spodomancy is distinguishable from capnomancy, which is divination by observing smoke, and pyromancy (and its many subsidiary rituals), which is divination by observing burning things or coals (but not their ash or cinders).