Throwing the Bones: How to Foretell the Future with Bones, Shells, and Nuts

Books on magic, witchcraft, etc vary wildly in quality, but this is one of the really excellent ones. The author is intelligent, knowledgeable, and funny. The book covers EVERYTHING: from how to read chicken bones to dominoes to Mongolian shagai bones (sheep ankle bones). I bought this book specifically because I needed to know how to read shagai, and not only is there a nice long discussion of them and the traditions surrounding them, but there is a CHART showing EXACTLY how to read them! There are lists of traditional symbols in divination, astrological symbolism - everything you need to do any kind of bone, nut, and shell reading you can think of. I'm keeping it permanently with my divination collection because it's likely to become my go-to resource for tough readings. If you're interested in this subject or want to learn how to do it, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Full of juicy information.

I really liked this book. It's a great intro to the subject. It really spices up the subject of divination! The author seems very wise & the book is very cool. People always want to look at it when they see me reading it. I noticed something strange in the writing though. The author always writes "I" in lower case ie "i." But on the last page of the book writes it in capital as in "I" upper case, but on the same page reverts to writing it lower case again! This doesn't detract from the info in anyway, but I wonder its purpose. Is it some type of code? We may never find out.

Unlike another reviewer, I don't think that this book "falls short" in anyway. Cat did a pretty good job cramming a wide swathe of cultures distinctive "bone oracle" use in plain English. A good amount of history, diagrams pictures and charts, a wide variety of not only descriptive but unique oracles all with a common theme of bones...for under 10 bucks? So it's an introduction, she's not an anthropoligist. I'm sure a dry and drab bow tie wearing professor of Blah-D-Blah can give you all the nitty gritty on a specific culture's use of bone oracles. If you just want a little bit of info to sink your teeth into, get this book. I did, and I don't regret it. Includes topics like; Slaughter bone oracles heat induced bone reading Wishbones (yes the thanksgiving tradition is in essence, a bone oracle) Oracle Bones in Ancient China Oracle Bones of the Native American Naskapi Tribe Mathematical Bone Reading Systems I Ching (complete with the 8 trigrams and sixty 4 hexagrams depicted) Yoruba Obi of west Africa (Nigeria) Hakata 4 binary bone oracles of the Shona people of Zimbabwe (with pictures of carvings and a chart of outcomes) Diloggun with cowrie shells Bone Dice and Sheep Knuckles Dominoes and Gypsy Dominoes Sortilege Rune Bones (my favorite) Possum Bone Reading (heard about it here in the South but never knew anything about it, thanks cat) Chicken Bone Reading Mingled Species Bone Meanings Bones of the Body meaning...with Zodiac Chart of a naked dude...for the ladies Containers Ancestor Altars Guidlines for casting bones (any system) And a Tea Leaf reading/meaning chart for good measure. This book absolutely delivers for under 10 bucks. Get a copy Her collaboration project "The Black Folder" is real good too.

Make sure you check dimensions on book. Print is very small. Would convert to a spiral but I don’t think there is enough room

While this volume is not lengthy, the amount of knowledge here is outstanding. A fantastic overview of bone throwing divination practices from various cultures. Truly informative!

The author has a passion for history: the book was written with great respect for the cultures that bone reading came from. A wonderful guide for anyone wanting to learn to throw bones. There's so much information in the book that I will read it several times to let it all sink in.

For such a complex topic this book brings the essentials of the beautiful art and practice that is reading bones! I love that the author did their do diligence in researching the history of this art and included it. Well written and absolutely worth the price and more.

Lovely book, fast shipping

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