The spell is a divinatory ritual that takes place through an act of magical characteristics. The etymological origin of the concept, which comes from Latin, refers to the ability to read luck.
To develop a spell, therefore, a fortune teller is responsible for interpreting certain signs that supposedly take place before an event. This means that various practices can be included within the notion of witchcraft, such as different types of "readings" (hand lines, letters, coffee beans, etc.). It is worth mentioning that currently the term spell is often used as a synonym for spell. In exchange, referring to practices divination word clairvoyance is preferred.
Understanding the idea in its broadest sense, a person who uses a tarot deck to divine the future is performing a spell. It is possible that this topic is presented as a fortune teller and covers the queries that other people want to ask to know what will happen in one or more areas of their life.
These types of divinatory practices have developed, with different variations, over thousands of years. In ancient times, in fact, society had great respect for those who offered spells, as they relied on their divinatory power. Today fortune telling has no prestige: people, in general, do not believe in the supposed abilities of those who say that they can read the signs to anticipate the future.
The change came from the advancement of science and its method. Enlightenment and confidence in reason made society begin to look for logical explanations for the link between a sign and an event, or between a cause and its consequence.
In addition to fortune telling, palmistry, and coffee reading, the spell also includes readings such as:
- Cleromancy: it is a very ancient type of divination, which made use of beans or dice, which were placed in an urn. Once the gods had been implored to direct destiny, these elements were thrown in to finally read the resulting symbols and forecast the future.
- Necromancy: this is a type of divination that consists of invoking the spirits of the dead by manipulating their remains or some of their possessions. Through this contact, it is believed that it is possible to know the future.
- Aeromancy: in this case, it is through the observation and interpretation of the air and the vaporous formations that occur in it (such as clouds, but also lightning, wind and thunder) that the act of divination is practiced. Aeromancy was very popular in many primitive peoples. During a session, the seer translates seemingly indefinite forms into concrete messages, or uses them to externalize the information that he had unconsciously accessed. This type of mance also depends on the position of the planets, which can be favorable or unfavorable.
