Onimanty

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The onimantie or nail show is a genus of ceremonial magic and is assigned to the field of goëtie . It is a kind of "magic specularia" and is one of the clairvoyant divinations .

Practices

Her fascination lies in the fixation of a dark-colored thumbnail, which was colored with a mixture of oil and soot. Sunlight or a burning candle reflects the light on the coated nail surface. The viewer focused his gaze on the reflecting rays and should now perceive certain faces or symbolic images. This illusion should now answer the questions put to the medium .

A variation is the so-called Krystallomantie , in this type of description, thick ink is poured into the hand of the oracle . The shapes that formed in the hand were used for clairvoyant interpretation of the future. In addition, it is reported that the hand of a young boy was smeared with oil and soot, then a necromancy followed and the required answers appeared in the hand.

Sheikh Ab del Kadere is reported from the Orient , who is said to have been a master in the exercise of onimanty, he used the following procedure: He selected a boy or a virgin , a pregnant woman or a black slave girl. He drew a square in the right hand of the chosen person in black ink and introduced smaller squares. In these squares he entered nine digits, and in the large central and free rectangle he poured so much black ink that a pistol-sized stain formed. The individual now had to look into this spherical spot and concentrate firmly on it. Before that, the magician had written down an Arabic spell on a narrow piece of paper , which probably came from a chapter in the Koran . The written paper was cut into six small pieces, the person sat on a chair and was circled by the company. Master set up a basin with glowing coal and from time to time put incense in it.

See also

literature

  • Alfred Lehmann, Superstition and Magic - From the oldest times to the present , Second revised and expanded edition, Verlag Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 1908, page 100
  • Kurt Benesch, Magic of the Renaissance , Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1985, page 56, ISBN 3-921695-91-0

Web links

  • Carl Kiesewetter , Faust in history and tradition , Georg Olms Verlag , 1963, ISBN 3487400715 , page 477 ff. Chapter: Die Onimantie, limited preview in Google book search, accessed July 1, 2016
  • Onimanty. In: Gustav W. Gessmann, Katechismus der Wahrsagekünste , Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 3864711258 , limited preview in the Google book search, accessed July 1, 2017
  • Onimanty. In: The notorious magician Christoph Wagner's life and deeds, retold according to the old tradition . Published 1798. Original from British Library . Digitized Jan. 31, 2014, limited preview in Google Book Search, accessed July 1, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav W. Gessmann, Catechism of fortune-telling arts , Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 3864711258 , under literature, page 213
  2. ↑ Carl Kiesewetter “Hypnotisches Clairvoyance” magazine Sphinx , Vol. I, 1886, p. 133, in: Gustav W. Gessmann, Katechismus der Wahrsagekünste , Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 3864711258
  3. ^ Alfred Lehmann, Superstition and Magic - From the oldest times to the present , Second revised and expanded edition, Verlag Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 1908, p. 100
  4. ↑ SPHINX - Monthly for the historical and experimental justification of a supersensible worldview on a monistic basis, edited by Hübbe-Schleiden, III. Born in 1888, sixth volume, Expedition of the Sphinx in Gera (Reuss) [1]