Psychic, Occult and Mystical Definitions
Letter: D
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Also Daemon. The Greek daimon means 'divine power', 'fate', or 'god'.
To the Greeks daimons were intermediary spirits between human beings and
the gods, acting as spiritual advisors.
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In Greek mythology, architect and inventor who designed for King Minos of Crete the
labyrinth in which was imprisoned the Minotaur, a man-eating monster that was half
man and half bull.
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Also called Dactylomancy, it is derived from the Greek dakterlios (finger ring)
and manteia ('divination'), and it is applied to a number of methods of divining the
future with the aid of rings.
Sometimes a ring is used as a pendulum, at other times it is dropped into a bowl of
water, its position at the bottom determining the prediction or the response to a
formulated question. The inside bottom of the bowl may contain a special pattern to
aid in the prognostication. A variation to this would be to dangle a ring by a thread
in a vessel filled with water and shake; the amount of times it hits the vessel's
wall determines the prediction.
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A form of divination, in this case by tears or crying.
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