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Wikipedia's article on divination as a comparative practice, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on divination as a comparative practice, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a broad comparative overview. NotesWikipedia's article on divination, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for its list of comparative methods, its distinction between divination and everyday fortune telling, and its summary of the sceptical literature from Cicero and Sextus Empiricus onward, standard reference facts. Nothing from this source is used for, and this record cites nothing about, the internal practice of any single oathbound or initiatory tradition.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination
Source Typereference
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- Practices, 94 claims: 93 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
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