diviner
Reads hidden signs
A diviner is someone who practices divination—attempting to discover hidden knowledge or foretell the future through supernatural means.
Diviners might use tools like rods, cards, or entrails, or claim direct spiritual insight.
The term also applies more broadly to anyone who perceives or intuits what others cannot: She was a diviner of people's true intentions.
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- sibylAncient female prophet
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
augur · pythia · prophetess · visionary · foreteller · prognosticator · presager · delphic
Forked sticks for locating water
- water witchingFolk method finding groundwater
- pendulumSuspended swinging weight
- witching stickForked branch for finding water
- groundwaterWater in underground rock
aquifer · springs · locating · rod · vein · surveying · minerals · ley lines
Extrasensory perception ability
- second sightExtrasensory perception of events
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
insight · ESP · extrasensory · psychic · perception · discernment · telepathy · sensitivity
Omen interpretation practice
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- geomancyDivination from ground markings
- bibliomancyDivination via random passages
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
chiromancy · casting lots · tarot · tea leaves · crystal gazing · reading signs
Spoken magical formula
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- séanceSpirit communication ritual
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
altar · offering · sacred · ceremony · oracle bones · entrails · ritual · medium
Indigenous spiritual healer
- medicine manTraditional indigenous healer
- witch doctorTraditional magical healer
- cunning folkTraditional rural magic workers
- druidAncient Celtic priest-scholar
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
soothsayer · augur · pythia · prophetess · visionary · foreteller · prognosticator · presager · delphic · fortune-teller
dowsing rods
Forked sticks for locating water
- water witchingFolk method finding groundwater
- pendulumSuspended swinging weight
- witching stickForked branch for finding water
groundwater · aquifer · springs · locating · rod · vein · surveying · minerals · ley lines · buried
clairvoyance
Extrasensory perception ability
- second sightExtrasensory perception of events
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
foresight · insight · ESP · extrasensory · psychic · perception · discernment · telepathy · sensitivity · revelation
augury
Omen interpretation practice
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- geomancyDivination from ground markings
- bibliomancyDivination via random passages
palmistry · chiromancy · casting lots · tarot · tea leaves · crystal gazing · reading signs
incantation
Spoken magical formula
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- séanceSpirit communication ritual
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
channeling · altar · offering · sacred · ceremony · oracle bones · entrails · ritual · medium · summoning
shaman
Indigenous spiritual healer
- medicine manTraditional indigenous healer
- witch doctorTraditional magical healer
- cunning folkTraditional rural magic workers
- Ifasacred verses, verses, signs
- fantasy rolesarcher, barbarian, sorceress, mage, wizard
- Wizardswizard, mage, sorcerer, warlock, enchanter
- divinationfortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot, tarot cards
- mysticsmystic, seer, clairvoyant, spiritualist, holy man
- occultistswitches, wizards, sorcerers, sorceresses, warlocks
divinerscientist
One who studies nature
empiricist · researcher · rationalist · investigator · analyst
divinerskeptic
One who doubts claims
materialist · debunker · atheist · secularist · rationalist
divinerverifier
One who confirms truth
fact-checker · auditor · authenticator · doubter · questioner
- divine healingRestoration through holy power
- divine revelationsSacred truths from deity
- divine interventionGodly action in affairs
- divine glorySacred transcendent brilliance
- divine commandmentsLaws from a deity
- divine planDeity's intended course
divine, divinity, divination, divining, divined, divinely, divines, diviners, divinatory