Close-up photograph of the eye of a baby with reflection of the scene in the pupil - cropped

Oculomancy (from the

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

''oculus'', "eye") is a form of

scrying Scrying, also known by various names such as "seeing" or "peeping", is the practice of looking into a suitable medium in the hope of detecting significant messages or visions. The objective might be personal guidance, prophecy, revelation, or in ...

where the diviner gazes into the questioners' eyes and reads the reflections.

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Divination {{Occult-stub