-mancy suffix

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 14648

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Margaret Dean <margdean at e...> wrote:
> 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 e...>

Hmm.

But 'necromancy' is not solely confined to divination through the 
manipulation of the dead.

It usually also includes zombies and othersuch.

But the dictionary supports it as 'divination' -- so that's good 
enough for me. 

Still, numerology, as I recall, does tend to involve a bit of basic 
math because you have to know how to add and subtract, mutiply and 
divide.

Indigo
(who had some strange hobbies growing up)