#stichomancy
Saturn in 8h = stichomancy / bibliomancy
March 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Feeding the stichomancy #writingprompt generator again!

play with the generator here: runeskelley.com/skelleyverse...
May 14, 2024 at 6:50 PM
I have somehow never encountered "stichomancy" before! Stichomancy: "divination by lines of verse in books taken at hazard", which was first recorded c. 1693 (Urquhart's Rabelais).
December 1, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Shout-out to accidental stichomancy coming to the rescue in sorting out my shit once again <3

I should restart that blog sometime where I took requests. It was fun
March 1, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Incoming grist for our Stichomancy #writingprompt generator. The tone is a bit ominous...
March 4, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Got home and the impressive "HOMOCORE ANTHOLOGY" book was waiting. Accidental stichomancy: first page opened to was "A Remembrance of the Alley Club, Missoula, Montana".

Now blasting "Boy with a Cunt" by ARTLESS, suggested by a review in Issue 1. Wow, what a wonderful song.
July 14, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Finishing up content for October on the Patreon - on various forms of #divination, some more obscure than others. Nice way to spend my morning. Did a session of #stichomancy. Won't be covering #tarot except in regard to #cartomancy and #lenormand. #occultsky #tarotsky
Temple of Ma'at Knoxville
September 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Learnt a brilliant new word today- and something I sometimes do myself: stichomancy. Which means opening a book at random to divine some kind of clue or indication about the future. Anyone else do that??
#stichomancy
August 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Adbusters stichomancy 2026. 'Live every day, every moment like a cat on the prowl, alive, alert and still a little wild.'
January 1, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Reading through the list of new phrases for our stichomancy #writingprompt generator, and discovered this series:

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November 29, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Tried some light bibliomancy (stichomancy?) at the library's new bird-themed book display and wound up on a passage about the wood duck's dick 🙈🦆🪶
March 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Stichomancy: practice of divination by pointing to random words on a page.
This #writingprompt generator is our personal fave. We've used it for years to perpetrate, that is, perpetuate our tag-team chain story.
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November 7, 2023 at 10:06 PM
I mean, I'm not sure if it's better or worse than stichomancy.
January 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
really just want to spend our days making weird stichomancy art musings decomposing the Exegenesis of PKD.
May 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Do you like writing prompts? Visit the Skelleyverse to check out not one but two prompt generators.

Stichomancy
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Four Elements
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November 7, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Stichomancy/bibliomancy

Hesiod’s Wine dark seas are the undulating vineyards in wine country
May 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Chamber's Cyclopædia cites it earlier, which is likely where the OED picked it up. Stichomancy (for words drawn at random from other books/verse) is older. Not to be confused with Rhapsodomancy (which is likely where the I-Ching fits, often used Virgil/Homer, and probably inspired using Bibles)
July 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This dictionary rocks. I'm going to try some stichomancy with it later.
April 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
examples include:

stichomancy,
fecality,
obeliscolychny,
metagrobolism,
diabology,
substantificial
December 26, 2024 at 1:55 PM