Cape romance
The Kaptromantie is a method of divination and belongs to the field of Goetia . It is one of the variants of hydromantic , gastromantic and leconomant and is a genre of ceremonial magic, which is about fortune-telling of the future using water.
Origin and Practices
It should be attested that, according to the statements of Septimius Severus ( 146-211 ), Emperor Didius Julianus (around 133/137-193) was fond of the Cape romance and made frequent use of it. It was also reported that at Patra at the temple of Minerva a spring arose which served as an oracle . A mirror was placed in this healing spring and the sick person looked at the mirror through the surface of the water, in which he could see the outcome of his illness. A similar form was reported by a source near Achaja in front of a cerium temple , during this ceremony the sick person had a mirror sunk into the water on a string and could then see the entire course of the disease.
Another practice describes that a basin is filled with water , after a certain period of mental exertion and with additional ceremonies it is expected that air spirits can be conjured up. Another aid is a mirror that has been lowered into the filled water basin. A medium , for example a young boy or a young pregnant woman, should see future events in the mirror.
literature
- Kurt Benesch: Magic of the Renaissance , pages: 55 and 391 - 395, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden , 1985, ISBN 3-921695-91-0 .
Web links
- Reinhard Falter: Looking in the water - The practice of water antiquity from antiquity to today, Part 2 , published in Hagia Chora 16/2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cape romance. In: Kurt Benesch: Magic of the Renaissance , pages: 55 and 391 - 395, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1985, ISBN 3-921695-91-0 .