Scatomancy Notes

The Origins: When Crap Was King

The Methods: A Stool for Every Story

The Legends: Scatomancers of Renown

The Revival: Modern Scatomancy

Why Scatomancy Endures

Other Notes

1569 J. SANDFORD tr. Agrippa’s Van. Artes lxxxiii. 145b, For this cause Scatomancie, Oromancie, Drymimancie, be called the divinations or Prognostications of Physicians, gathered by ordures and urines. 1861 READE Cloister & H. xxvi, I studied at Montpelier… There learned I Dririmancy, Scatomancy, Pathology [etc.]. 1897 in Syd. Soc. Lex.

History

Miscellaneous

Your modern Indian magician
Makes but a hole in th’ earth to piss in,
And straight resolves all questions by’t,
And seldom fails to be i’th’ right.

Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.3.609-612

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