aGeomancy ( Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand. The most prevalent form of divinatory geomancy involves interpreting a series of 16 figures fo...
In Britain, Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand and, particularly prevalent in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nan, Nana, Nanna, Nanny, Gran and Granny and other variations are often used for grandmother in both writing and speech. Why do they call them great gra...
i.) To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer. Obtain (v. i.) To prevail; to succeed. Obtainable (a.) Capable of being ...
Witch’s Bells Meaning Bells in Witchcraft Conventionally speaking, people made bells from iron and, according to European lore, iron scares off or, at the very least, agitatesFairies. This belief was so prevalent, that folks would keep iron horseshoes above the doorway toward off the Fae and...
While we start to see sudden outpourings of records regarding human sacrifice and its repeated bans since the early Song period, the scarcity of such accounts during the Tang does not necessarily mean that the actual practice was less prevalent. Chinese intellectual historian Ge Zhaoguang attributes...
\textcite{Sebba:2009}, for example, argues that ``prescription'' is a product of ``the prevalent language ideology'' (p.~46), and \textcite{Cahill:2023} argues that writers first have to accept ``the very idea of standardised spelling'' (p.~151) before any such system can begin ...