Arithmancy, Etc.

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 14647

Indigo wrote:
 
> Arithmancy sounds, to me at least, like a magickal way to deal with
> math.
> 
> Anyone?

"Arith-mancy" would be divination by means of numbers.  Anything
with a "-mancy" suffix is divination of some sort:  e.g.
"cheiromancy" is a fancier word for palmistry, "oneiromancy" is
divination by means of dreams, etc.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>