The Occult

Alchemy, ''Black Magic'' and all other types of ''Conjurings''...

Favomancy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/favomancy 26th Jan 2023 - Known in Russia since The Middle Ages, ''Favomancy'' is a Divination Practice, by which Fava Beans (uncooked), are used to determine fortune and futur …

Fixation

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/fixation 26th Jan 2023 - The term ''Fixation'' – as it relates to the ancient Art of Alchemy, is defined as taking a highly volatile material and transforming it into a …

Botanomancy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/botanomancy 26th Jan 2023 - While the study and use of various Herbs and other organic materials for Healing and other remedies is a practice untold Centuries in age, ''Botanoman …

Cephalonmancy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/cephalonmancy 26th Jan 2023 - The term ''Cephalonmancy'' is associated with a rather ''Ancient'' form of Divination which involved the ''reading'' (or determination through visual …

Astragalomancy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/astragalomancy 25th Jan 2023 - ''Astragalomancy'' can be dated back to Ancient Greek (500 BC) – with variations found throughout Europe. A form of Divination, The Practice (wh …

''Grimorium Verum''

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/grimorium-verum 25th Jan 2023 - A Grimoire which traditionally dates to 1517 AD – but some Arcane Scholars cite it was actually compiled from ancient Egyptian Sources – T …

Gyromancy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/gyromancy 25th Jan 2023 - ''Gyromancy'' can be traced to Ancient Greece (and later the Early Middle Ages of Europe). It a Divination Practice by which One moves (through contin …

Crithomancy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/crithomancy 25th Jan 2023 - The Divination Practice of ''Crithomancy'' is related to several Ancient Beliefs. First (to a small degree), Ancient Egypt, Greece and later The Mayan …

Aichmomancy

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/aichmomancy 25th Jan 2023 - A Divination Practice, ''Aichmomany'' is One's ability to determine The Future by the use of pointed objects (a Knife, Spearhead or related). Such Obj …

Hocus Pocus

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/hocus-pocus 23rd Jan 2023 - As inventive as the previously discussed ''Abracadabra'' the term ''Hocus Pocus'' is another ''non-word'' apparently invented as a means to promote ma …

Pact Ink

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/pact-ink 23rd Jan 2023 - ''Contracts'' with The Devil have often been used as a Literary Plot device for Centuries. As with the most famous version of ''Faust'' and His deal w …

Abracadabra

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/abracadabra 23rd Jan 2023 - An oft used and seldom understood ''term'' -  ''Abracadabra'' has no real origin. Attributed to 2nd Century AD Rome, even in this - Historians de …