33).1 While the earlier classical physiognomy was chiefly descriptive, the later medieval authors particularly developed the predictive and astrological side, their treatises often digressing into chiromancy, onychomancy, clidomancy, podoscopy, spasmatomancy, and other blanches of prophetic folk-lor
For long ages astronomy and astrology (which might be called astromancy, on the same principle as chiromancy) were identified; and a distinction is made between natural astrology, which predicts the motions of the heavenly bodies, eclipses, &c., and judicial astrology, which studies the influe
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