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Favomancy is a form of divination that used to be practized by seer
Seer

Seer or Seers or SEER may refer to:Predicting the future* A Clairvoyance or a prophet* The Seer , a fictional character on the television series Charmed...
s in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, and in particular, the Ubykh people
Ubykh people

}Ubykh people are a group who spoke the Northwest Caucasian languages Ubykh language, until other local languages displaced it and its last speaker finally died in 1992....
. The practice involves throwing beans on the ground and interpreting the patterns in which the beans fall; it is therefore a type of cleromancy
Cleromancy

Cleromancy is a form of divination using sortition, casting of lots, or casting bones, in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice, but that are believed to reveal the will of God or other supernatural entities....
. Russian methods of favomancy may still exist; however, since the departure of the Ubykhs from the Caucasus in 1864, details of exactly how Ubykh soothsayers interpreted the patterns formed by the beans are lost.

Etymology
Favomancy comes from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 faba "bean" and formed by analogy with the names of similar divination
Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. Diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency....
 methods such as alectromancy.






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Favomancy is a form of divination that used to be practized by seer
Seer

Seer or Seers or SEER may refer to:Predicting the future* A Clairvoyance or a prophet* The Seer , a fictional character on the television series Charmed...
s in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, and in particular, the Ubykh people
Ubykh people

}Ubykh people are a group who spoke the Northwest Caucasian languages Ubykh language, until other local languages displaced it and its last speaker finally died in 1992....
. The practice involves throwing beans on the ground and interpreting the patterns in which the beans fall; it is therefore a type of cleromancy
Cleromancy

Cleromancy is a form of divination using sortition, casting of lots, or casting bones, in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice, but that are believed to reveal the will of God or other supernatural entities....
. Russian methods of favomancy may still exist; however, since the departure of the Ubykhs from the Caucasus in 1864, details of exactly how Ubykh soothsayers interpreted the patterns formed by the beans are lost.

Etymology


Favomancy comes from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 faba "bean" and formed by analogy with the names of similar divination
Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. Diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency....
 methods such as alectromancy. The Ubykh
Ubykh language

Ubykh or Ubyx is a language of the Northwest Caucasian languages, spoken by the Ubykh people up until the early 1990s.The word is derived from , its name in the Abdzakh Adyghe language language....
 term for a favomancer simply means "bean-thrower", and later became a synonym for all soothsayer
Soothsayer

A soothsayer is a person who claims to speak sooth: specifically one who predicts the future based upon personal, political, spiritual, mental or religious beliefs rather than scientific facts....
s and seer
Seer

Seer or Seers or SEER may refer to:Predicting the future* A Clairvoyance or a prophet* The Seer , a fictional character on the television series Charmed...
s in general.