From Ohio Wesleyan's 1945 yearbook.

From Fate Magazine, 1990.

From Improvement Era, 1947.

Divination by the leapings of an occult cat.  From Odd Creatures by Dum-Dum, 1915.

"What is to be."  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  

We couldn't find more information about these (divinatory?) cards by Jeanette Fleming.  The bottom card, "An Unearthly Hour," speaks to us.  From Northeastern Illinois University's 1982 yearbook.

This curious set of cards appears in Puck magazine, 1878.  The symbols (left to right, top to bottom):

The deck also includes a Gentleman card, but it wasn't printed.  The explanation: "We don't give his portrait, 'cause he had red hair and it might hurt the paper."

Here's a video about using this deck for a divination.

Anxiety about the future, from Dark Shadows episodes 1093 and 1092.  "There's no point in knowing the future.  It's just gonna happen anyway."  "I don't wanna find out what's going to happen, ever!"

Many of us have been there, slumped in an armchair, the Ouija board on our lap upside down, our fingers tracing meaningless patterns over its surface ... our heads inclined at an odd angle, our eyes vacant, singing a little tune."  From Effigies by William K.

From Mansfield Female College's 1925 yearbook.

From Longwood's 1921 yearbook.

From Timescope, Teacher's Guidebook by Alec Allinson, 1974.

From State Teachers College (Memphis)'s 1936 yearbook.

Contrary to the popular ideal, prophecy usually doesn't involve a wizard's hat or hooded cloak.  From Presbyterian College's 1916 yearbook.

Gaze in a mirror on Christmas eve at midnight so as to predict the events of the coming year.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.

We're honored to have been featured on Eli Ro's podcast:

I have a book on Astragalomancy that I really like, Astragalomancy: A Loaded Guide: Intriguing Readings of 21 Discrete Dice Throws by Craig Conley and it’s a whole lot of history and some filler, to be honest, but it’s well-written and easy to follow and it is a straightforward guide to dice reading or bone reading. But there’s a bit in there that gives a really good overview ...

There is perhaps no better way to conjure up the spirit of great antiquity than to roll dice. The very ancient game of throwing knucklebones dates back to the Trojan War, if we are to take Sophocles’ word. The original knucklebone was technically a bone in a sheep’s ankle, the astragalus, hence divination by astragalomancy. The great Greek philosopher Plato traced dice even farther back, to the ibis-headed Egyptian god Thoth, inventor of magic and writing and science, divine arbitrator, judge of the dead, and maintainer of the universe. Plato himself played dice not only with cubes but also tetrahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons, and icosahedrons-the famous “Platonic solids” of geometry. 

Plato said, “God geometrizes,” and that’s a key to why dice have always been associated with divination--the geometric solids, as building blocks of the universe, embody truths on higher planes. Over the centuries, several rules have been associated with throwing dice for divination. However, it is entirely a matter of personal choice whether these are followed or ignored. Many of these rules are arbitrary and were probably developed to add mystery and significance to divination by dice. Do not be afraid to develop your own guidelines, nor to be completely spontaneous, using the dice in different ways according to your instincts at the time. Trusting your instincts is the best way to get a good reading.

In other words, we can go through some common interpretations for certain dice throws and formations, but the more we do it, the more we can and should begin to interpret things using our own intuition and experiences. And that’s the truth for absolutely every kind of divination that we will ever do. The guidelines are just that; they’re guides. They are not the law. Our own sixth sense is always the authority, we should always trust our instincts when it conflicts with the so-called rules. 

From Shadowland, 1923.

From Consult the Oracle by Gabriel Nostradamus, 1899.