Onychomancy
Onychomancy
Divination by fingernails. It was practiced by watching the reflection of the sun in the nails of a boy, and judging the future by the shape of the figures displayed on their surface.
(See also onimancy )
Sources:
Waite, Arthur Edward. The Occult Sciences. N.p., 1891. Reprint, Secaucus, N.J.: University Books, 1974.
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