Episode 35 – Divination and Prophecy

A pencil, a ball point pen, and a quill sitting in lounge chairs drinking coffee; Title: Writers Drinking Coffee

Are you writing a historic fantasy which contains divination or prognostication? Want to make it more historically accurate? Sandra Brenchley joins the coffee club to talk about her studies into medieval divination, soothsaying, and other prognostication devices.

MesoAmerican holding a knife to a monk tied to a sacrificial pole at the top of a temple: “Whaddya mean, your sacrifice is ‘angering the Sun God’? That’s just an eclipse, man.”

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