A few methods of divination:
- pyromancy (by fire)
- ophiomancy (by snakes)
- pegomancy (by spring water)
- anemoscopy(by wind)
- daphnomancy (by burning laurel wreaths)
- hippomancy (by horses)
- tiromancy (by cheese)
to which we may now add podomancy:- divination by iPod. Method: switch iPod to shuffle songs and try to determine what your iPod’s choices are telling you.
Helen walked to the newsagent on shuffle and the iPod chose ELO twice in 10 minutes out of 2,800 songs. Mr Blue Sky? I asked, assuming the iPod was forecasting happy days ahead. But the song chosen was Confusion, which I’ve never even heard of. Confusion ahead for Helen, then.
