Examples from literature

• Another form of divination which they employ for the same purpose is to put the question to the ghost, while two men hold a bow which belonged to him and to which some personal articles of his are attached. 
• He is supposed to have been well versed in the arts of divination and astrology, and was the origin of the Persian magi. 
• If the woman had no such dream, it fell to the father or the relatives to determine the name by divination or by consulting a wizard. 
• It needed little divination on her part to guess what the words might have been. 
• Visitors are there in plenty, but their object is to "get luck," and the business of religion has become transformed into divination and spiritual gambling.